What's really happening with Fujitsu

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This was posted by COO of Fujitsu over at AVS and explains some of what's
really happening with Fujitsu as well as clearing up some of the misleading
articles you may have read:

"I seem to remember an episode of the "West Wing" where one of the staff of
President B responded to an e-mail that eventually went around and bit him in
the butt. Having said that, as President and COO of Fujitsu General America,
let me reassure all of you once and for all that Fujitsu General Limited, the
company that makes and sells finished equipment plasma display panels has no
intention of exiting the business....period.

In fact, we have plans for bigger and better panels as many of you may know by
now. Unfortunately, there has been a great deal of confusion generated by
Fujitsu Limited's press release regarding their future in the manufacturing of
PDP components. Hindsight tells us that it could have been handled a bit
differently. Nonetheless, we are communicating with all of our dealers and
distributors and helping them understand the entire situation.

Frankly, Fujitsu Limited's reasons for selling a portion of their interest to
Hitachi are a function of their desire to focus on their core competencies.
Fujitsu General Limited's core competencies lie in producing finished equipment
that delivers the highest quality picture to the end user regardless of whose
PDP components we use.

In closing, I'm sorry if this situation has caused any confusion, but let me
repeat....Fujitsu plasma display products will be here today, tomorrow and well
into the future. Thank you very much for your continued support.

I hope I don't relive that West Wing episode, but we thought the situation was
important enough to communicate to the end users as well as our dealers and
distributors.

Thanks again."

TR