APPENDIX: REPRESENTATIVE PRESS RELEASES CONCERNING JOINT VENTURES

摘要

CANNES, France, Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. said on Monday it would not abandon its partnership with Motorola Corp despite reports it was holding talks with International Business Machines Corp on a possible joint venture on workstations. 'We have an excellent relationship with Motorola,' Guerrino De Luca, Apple's European Marketing director, told Reuters. 'We have been working with their RISC (Workstation) chip for a while now. We won't discard Motorola.'