From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Symmetricom 5071A Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:59:41 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tom Van Baak" writes: > >Symmetricom to Acquire Agilent Technologies' Frequency and Time Standards > >Product Line > > > >http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050624/sff034.html?.v=13 > > So now we have a Cesium monopoly ? Not a really big change, since they already made the tubes for the 5071A. Also, there is still one Symmetricom independent (except for the tubes) vendor in Oscilloquartz. Actually, this will be more buissness to them, since Symmetricom again is remaking its mistake of bringing many small buissess to one larger one, just to loose orders to the competition (Oscilloquartz) since they removed the second-source orders. Now they are doing it again. Ah well. I have long wondered where the Cesium line (sorry, no pun intended) of Agilent is going to end up, since it is becomming more and more of an obscure product in their reshaping/downsizing. They basically had two potential buyers, Symmetricom and Oscilloquartz and they already sold their GPS clock buissness to Symmetricom so I guess it was the easiest path. There is also the Russian/English clockmaker (Cesium and Hydrogen) but they have yeat to make a big impact on the western market as far as I've have gathered their dealings. In the western world, at least for commercial tubes, there have been only one tube vendor for a long time now, so you could view that as a monopoly in itself. On the other hand, considering that this is not really a mass-market I guess it makes sense anyway. They also do tubes in Russia to the best of my knowledge. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
