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Subject: Re: Transmonde = ASE Technologies USA, NOT ASE (USA)

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Trent

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Date Posted: 00:10:11 08/25/99 Wed
In reply to: Navin Sabharwal 's message, "Transmonde = ASE Technologies USA, NOT ASE (USA)" on 23:17:22 08/24/99 Tue

You are partially correct. ASE Technologies (USA) and ASE USA are two different companies, both owned by the same. ASE Technologies (USA) has been around since 1995 assembly notebook computers for other vendors. IBM Thinkpad 365 series and Epson ActionNotes were the biggest customers. There were internal discussions to create a website for ASE Technologies (USA) for over two years, but it was never a priority.

As far as management knowing Transmonde was going to close is hard to say since the manangement of Transmonde and ASE were not the same.
> By now you may have seen the message from
> weirdkid2@aol.com in comp.sys.laptops.
>
> I did a bit of basic sleuthing and this is what I came
> up with.
>
> The link on the Transmonde site leads to ASE
> Technologies (USA) i.e. www.aseusa.com
>
> ASE Technologies (USA) is now supposed to handle
> warranty and service issues.
>
> Go to www.register.com and do searches for details on
> who registered the domain names www.transmonde.com,
> www.aseus.com, and www.aseusa.com. It is an eye-opener.
>
> Basically www.transmonde.com and www.aseusa.com are
> the same company. Evidence is the fact that they both
> have the same physical address and the *exact* same
> domain servers.
>
> Interestingly www.aseusa.com was first registered on
> July 29th, 1999. This is about 2 weeks before
> Transmonde shut down. That probably gives you an idea
> of when the *final* decision was made to shut down
> Transmonde. Therefore any communications after that
> date by the *senior* management at Transmonde to
> customers was possibly morally misleading. They
> pretended every thing was peachy even if it wasn't.
> Please note that all employees may not have known of
> the impending closure.
>
> ASE (USA) (www.aseus.com) on the other hand is
> probably a totally separate division. They have a
> separate physical address and different servers.
> Comments that weirdkid2@aol.com reported from ASE
> (USA) are overstated. They are probably not aware that
> a sister operation has been renamed.
>
> What does all this tell us? Prior to July 1999 ASE
> Technologies (USA) did not exist. Since both ASE
> Technologies (USA) and Transmonde share the same
> physical address they are basically the same operation
> (minus some unfortunate employees). All unreturned
> laptops are probably sitting in the same building.
> Your laptops and invoices (Jessica) were not passed to
> an "unknown entity".
>
> At current ASE Technologies (USA) does not *appear* to
> have any other business then to provide service to
> Transmonde's client base.
>
> Essentially you are dealing with same operation, only
> now they have a new name and they don't have to
> provide technical support.
>
> Is this a good thing? We'll have to wait and see.
>
> Please note that I don't own a Transmonde laptop. I
> *was* a potential customer.

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Transmonde = ASE Technologies USA, NOT ASE (USA)	Dennis van Leeuwen	13:13:30 08/25/99 Wed
Re: Transmonde = ASE Technologies USA, NOT ASE (USA) -- Trent, 13:40:07 08/25/99 Wed Re: Transmonde = ASE Technologies USA, NOT ASE (USA) -- Den, 23:54:40 08/25/99 Wed