One of Hungary’s largest distributors, Duna Elektronika, is preparing to enter the Unix market. According to chief executive Peter Freed, the company is in negotiations with IBM Corp’s Eastern European headquarters in Vienna to supply RS/6000s to the domestic market next year. He said The RS/6000 is not big now in Hungary, and it has only recently come off the Comecon list. But then, in June 91 the PS/2 wasn’t big, and this year the Unix market will be interesting. To date, Duna has only sold MS-DOS-based products. Freed also said that it was he rather than Duna, who had taken a 90% stake in Hungary’s largest circulation English-language newspaper, Budapest Week (CI No 2,074). Computergram’s original information had come from the editor of Budapest Week, Rick Brunner. Freed denied that the deal caused a conflict of interests when allocating Duna’s advertising budgets. Since the takeover, the amount Duna has advertised in Budapest Week has grown significantly, and Freed intends to assign between $20,000 and $25,000 of Duna’s advertising budget to the paper in 1993. Last year, the figure was between $2,000 and $3,000. He justified the situation, saying, Obviously, we [Duna] got a good deal. Although the company’s Hungarian investors, state-owned SZUV and Skia, are aware of the situation, Freed said that he had not formally announced his personal business interests to Scottsdale, Arizona-based distributor MicroAge Inc, which holds a 17% stake in Duna. He added, There might be a suggestion of conflict of interest, but it doesn’t bother me.