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A short time ago, Amiga news had an interview with Thomas Dellert, CEO of the phase 5 licencee DCE, about the phase 5 products and have it to us. The (German) article can be read on http://www.amiga-news.de/archiv/0038.shtml.
»Interview in German
Translator: Martina Jacobs
amiga news: Many users worry about how and if Phase5 products will still be available. As to our knowledge DCE allready obtained a number of licences from Phase5 some time ago. How about this in detail?
Thomas Dellert: DCE owns exclusive rights on the following Phase5 products:
Pos. 1-6 are already available again.
Cyberstorm MK III and PPC will be shipping within the 8th week of this year.
Blizzard PPC after about 7 weeks.
BVison and CV PPC about today fortnight.
Distribution will be done by Vesalia Computer.
| amiga-news.de: | These are excellent news! Will DCE take over repaire services for those products, too? |
| Thomas Dellert: | DCE will take over repair services for those products. So, owners of elder boards don't have to worry about that. |
| amiga-news.de: | Will the licences and the availability of Phase5 products be impaired or even endangered by Phase5's application for insolvency? |
| Thomas Dellert: | We've obtained exclusive rights for these products in April&bbsp;1999 already. We are not paying any licence fee to P5. Rather than this we obtained the licences by a single payment. There are unobjectionable contracts. The availability of the products is secure. |
| amiga-news.de: | Will there be further software updates relating phase5 products? Are you already in contact about this with Ralph Schmidt? |
| Thomas Dellert: | A good and very important question, Petra. Yes, I had a meeting with Ralph Schmidt and Frank Mariak, two days ago. We have come to terms that in the future we will cooperate very close. There will be a FTP server on our homepage, where device updates will be found for download. |
| amiga-news.de: | Are there any plans for new developments based upon Phase5's products? |
| Thomas Dellert: | For sure existing hardware will be produced at first. There are a lot of preorders. Since Permedia II chips have been announced by TI, we probable will be able to produce only a number of 1200 BVision or CV-PPC boards. Hence we are thinking about a Permedia III board for Amiga. This might be mounted upon the existing BVision or CV-PPC platform. Frank Mariak will develop the software for us. With the entire amount of technical know-how of Phase5 we now have a powerful package at our disposal. In any case there will be activities relating PPC. For the time being as a dual CPU resolution only. |
| amiga-news.de: | In particular: Will there be a Phase5 G4 board from DCE, and will there be pay regard to prepayments Phase5 allready recieved relating those boards? Or will there be hardware at cheaper prices, similar to Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe offering to all those Euromail harmed people AminetCDs at a price of DM 5 (approx. 2.55 Euros) or bricks? |
| Thomas Dellert: | Relating that I already met with Wolf Dietrich. Indeed at this time I cannot tell, if we will decide for a G4 project. |
| amiga-news.de: | Do DCE have access to hardware of Phase5' customers, which lies at Phase5's for repair at this time? |
| Thomas Dellert: | No, we haven't. |
| amiga-news.de: | Thomas, thank you very much for your informativ answers. We are pacifyed and pleased that production will contiue, and that customers who have Phase5 products will be able to take up a competent service for repair at DCE. |
Amiga News asked also the lawyer of the insolvency some questions. This text can be found on http://www.amiga-news.de/archiv/0042.shtml.
»Phase 5's Application for Insolvency - Several Questions - 02/15/2000
Several questions were raised by Phase5 digital products' application for insolvency, which we have sent by Fax to the provisional receiver, Mrs. Angelika Amend on February 10., 2000.
At first the questions we have submitted:
Many users have sent in devices (CPU boards, etc.) to Phase 5 for repair. Some of these under terms of guarantee, but some also liable for costs. What can those users do to get their boards back as soon as possible (repaired or not)?
Subject: Prepaiments for preordered G3/G4 boards.
If we are informed properly, prepayments were made against the background that those payments will be effected to an account
in trust. Such a statement was made by Phase 5 in the media back then to make sure that the customers would get back their
money, if those boards would be never released (whatever the reason). Was the money of those customers actualy effected to
an account in trust, or are those payments possibly part of the insolvency procedure?
We have heard from several sources Phase 5 would consist of two companies. One a Ltd. (associates are not known by me) and the other one an association of common law between Wolf Dietrich and Gerald Karda. This brings up a question, which of these companies has made the application for insolvency. Unfortuantly, one could not find out the form of the association from the letter on which the recieved press release was written.
How will a user come to know if the insolvency proceedings have been disclosed, so that potentially aggrieved people are able to log on their rights?
Answer from 15.02.2000
Today we recieved the following answers, which we mirror here word by word:
Angelika Amend, Lawyer
Am Aufstieg 10
61476 Kronberg im Taunus
Fax-Nr. 06173/940342
amiga-news.de
Petra Struck
15. Februar 2000
aa/gh - phase-006 Please, qoute allways
Insolvency proceedings for Phase 5 digital products
Dear Mrs. Petra Struck,
in response to your writing from 02/10/2000.
At present the users only can wait and see, if insolvency proceedings will be disclosed. Because the suspended business activities there are currently no repairs made etc. The users should solely denounce thier pretensions with the signatory. Up to now the signatory does not know about an account in trust.
Insolvency proceedings are pending only for the acquirements of the association of common law, existing of Wolf Dietrich and Gerald Carda. The users are creditors of the association, so they will be informed about the disclosure of insolvency proceedings.
Sincerely yours
Angelika Amend
Lawyer
provisional receiver
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