Analysts – who stopped following the company in droves as it began to look terminal – are having to come around to our view that if any of the traditional second-line minimakers is to pull the with one bound he was free trick and get back onto a steady growth and profit tack, it is likely to be that eternal Houdini, Data General Corp – but they don’t like it much: the shares are up 311% since January 1 and now stand at around $18, but following the second quarter figures announcement, on the conference call with Data General, the analysts all sounded as if they had swallowed bars of soap, John Adams of Boston broker Adams, Harkness & Hill advised the Wall Street Journal – nobody enjoys prosperity if they haven’t been predicting it.
