AMIGA

2. AMIGA informs about partnership with Sun Microsystems, Inc.

AMIGA informs:

»Amiga Announces Plans to Embrace Sun's JavaTM Technology as the software platform for forthcoming New Amiga products

Amiga is the home of a large number of the world's leading edge multimedia developers, artists and users.

Historically, the Amiga platform has targeted providing the most compelling multimedia content to desktop systems, but the new Amiga platform will address connected, multimedia digital appliances such as webphones, digital TVs, and web pads. Now the world's most creative multimedia engineers can leverage the JavaTM platform to target a vast array of new products and solutions. The underlying technology used in the Amiga system is a Sun Java branded version of PersonalJava developed by the Tao Group. Tao's software is a media-rich environment that was designed from the ground up to run on a wide range of low cost, processor and memory constrained consumer devices that offer a wide range of multimedia capabilities.

Within Amiga's new target markets, several key standards groups are adopting Java technology; HAVi, OSGi and DVB are three examples. Amiga is adopting the popular Java platform for developers creating new generation content and applications that could also be used on industry standard devices such as in home networking and digital television. The millions of Java technology developers will be able to deploy their innovative content on a wide range of new products that will excite consumers.

"We are excited to see a longtime favorite of the multimedia developer community turn to Java technology as their programming platform of choice. The deeply loyal Amiga developer community will be able to leverage the wealth of Java development tools and support to build new, highly innovative and fun applications. We are also pleased that Amiga will work with the Tao Group, a company dedicated to compatible implementations with media rich capabilities," said Curtis Sasaki, Director of Product Marketing, Consumer Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

"The New Amiga is a breath of fresh air for the industry, and has a talent pool of developers who continue to lead the way in the creation of dynamic software products," commented Bill McEwen, President and CEO, Amiga. "Sun and the Java platform provide us with great tools, a large number of potentially new developers, and a well supported platform, and experience in emerging markets. The Tao intentTM implementation is unique in being able to provide the key system requirements needed to run the Java platform in mobile and consumer products."

Francis Charig, Chairman of Tao Group says, "Combining the world's most advanced community of multimedia artists and engineers with the new industry standard software [Java] is the next natural step forward. It is wholly appropriate that Sun, Tao and Amiga work closely together and the result shall be a wealth of Java technology-based media content for the consumer and other markets."

Notes to Editors

About Amiga

Amiga Incorporated is dedicated to the development, design, and implementation of components, services, and models that support the digital experience of tomorrow. Amiga lead the world into the multimedia experience in the early 80's, and will lead it into the Digital content universe of the future.

About Tao

Tao Group is an intellectual property generator and software company specializing in technologies for home and mobile networks. Incorporated in 1992, the company provides leading edge products for the emerging markets of intelligent consumer devices. The company's philosophy is based on providing powerful frameworks for use right across the range of networked appliances from smart phones to digital televisions, into which Tao's clients can build in their own branding and incorporate their own added value. Tao's clients include blue chip technology corporations in the United States, Japan and Europe. Motorola and Sony are investors in Tao Group. Tao is headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom, with representation in Japan and the US, and its staff includes more than fifty world-class software engineers. Tao is a Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 Winner and has won a series of innovation awards for its operating system and JavaTM-based engine.

Amiga and AmigaDOS are trademarks of Amiga Inc. The Boing Ball Logo, the Amiga Diamond Logo, and the Amiga Logo are trademarks of Amiga Inc. and may not be reproduced for any purpose. intentTM is a trademark of Tao Group Limited. Sun, Sun Microsystems, and JavaTM are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. «

Remark from Gernod Schomberg about "FAST 50" (extracted from a press release on another company): (Auszug aus der Presseveroeffentlichung einer anderen Firma):

»Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 Winner

Companies, who want to be considered for the status "Fast 50", have to produce a technology or a technology based product. Their efforts have to be mainly in research and development. The order of nominations is based on the percentage of growing company income within a five year period, which has to start with at least 50,000 US-$.

Bob Weaver, partner of the technology group Deloitte & Touche, based in San Diego, CA says: "To be named as a Fast-50-winner is a confirmation of the outstanding position of a company and their ability to make not just the right decision at the right time, but to have the vision to grow continously about 5 years."