Remember when we said that Canon Inc would close down its Advanced Technology Operation in Portland, Oregon, which it created back in March 1994 to push NeXTstep and NT-on-iAPX-86 boxes, plus interface and deployment tools (CI No 2,684)? Well the operation is no longer and Canon Computer Systems Inc in Costa Mesa, California, is picking up the pieces, including the boxes and including, presumably, also the PowerPC development work the operation had been expected to undertake.