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Innovative (http://www.innovative-web.de) informs:
»11.9.2000 Innovative announces future plans (Sorry for the full-length version, but compressing the content is difficult. In future, our newsletter will be short as you known them)
Innovative, known as the developers of popular AMIGA®-titles such as fxPAINT, fxSCAN, VHI Studio and Ultraconv today announced the future plans of the enterprise.
| *fxSCAN 3.0 with intelligent OCR-engine (OCR = Optical Character |
| Recognition)* |
| fxSCAN will soon be available in version 3.0. It will be a major |
| update including the following new features: |
| · intelligent OCR-engine |
| · Support for free BetaScan-drivers |
| · comfortable Copymachine-function |
| · reworked user-interface |
| · JPEG-files are now loaded via PPC |
| · many small improvements |
The price for V3.0 will be at 69.- DM/35 EURO/35 US$. An update from V1.0/V2.0 will cost 59.- DM/30 EUROR/30 US$. We won't offer updates from V1.0 SE (ScanQuix-special edition). fxSCAN 3.0 can already be ordered from Innovative's online-shop (http://www.innovative-web.de/) and will be delivered as soon as the final product becomes available. A completly new fxSCAN-website will be online at the time the new version is introduced.
The present
Innovative regards the AMIGA®-market as too small to further exist only from revenues of this market. The enterprise doesn't see any tendencies towards improvement, as key-enterprises have either left the AMIGA®-market or went out of bussiness and important hardware- products are only available as long as they are still in stock. Faster, more up-to-date or completly new hardware doesn't seem to be within reach and major improvements of the current Classic-AmigaOS® are not to be expected in near future. The AMIGA® SDK is a highlight, but it is not a garantor for the future existance and maintenance of the new AMIGA®-Operating-/Computersystems.
The current situation forces Innovative to look for new markets and to no more *exclusivly* work in the AMIGA®-market.
The future
After the availability of fxSCAN V3.0, Innovative will intensify work on a new technology (details are not available due to reasons of protecting Innovative's intellectual property). Programs developed with the aid of this new technology (Codename "InNT") will be more comfortable to use and will have an even more spectacular optic. Furthermore programs developed with it will be highly portable to other platforms and CPUs. Indeed porting an application is expected to take only a few days, cutting down both the amount of development-time and -money that has to be spent for that task. As soon as the first version of this new technology is finished we will start porting already known Innovative-titles to the new technology and a variety of different platforms. Besides the AMIGA®-market, the Windows®- and Linux®-market will be target of the developments of the company. It's also planned to hand out licences for this new technology, but this still has to be decided. The result of the decision will be announced in a later, seperate press release.
The AMIGA®-conversions
We regret to say that our new technology will most probably not be able to run on 68K-PPC-Dual-CPU-Systems as it is currently used in some AMIGA®s, as a seperation of the GUI and the program will be hard to perform and a 68060 definatly seems to be too slow for fluid and comfortable work. Once the development of the first version of the new technology is finished, Innovative will evaluate the possibilities of a portation to MorphOS and APUS Linux and is currently planning a portation to these platforms. The Tao® Elate®-based new AmigaOS® will be supported by Innovative as far as it is available. This way, AMIGA®-users will be able to continue enjoying the high-quality and highly innovative software by Innovative.
The current products
It can't be denied that future plans are in conflict with the further development of the current product-line for AMIGA®-computers. Nevertheless the currently existing products will be developed further and updates will be available at a regular basis though not as often as in the past. As soon as the versions developed with the new technology are available, users get an update-offer. So everybody buying an Innovative-product today, buys a product that will be developed further in future and that he will be able to use even after switching to other OSes like Windows®, Linux® or "Amiga® NG" as well.
The webservices
We will stop offering webservices, as the amount of time and money spent can in no way be justified with the resulting revenues. Existing contracts will continue to exist for a yet undefined time whereas we won't do any new contracts. Of course we will continue to offer special solutions for companies in the future and we'll also keep updating the "Amiga Link Directory".
Frequently asked questions
| Question: | So you'll stop development for the AMIGA ? |
| Answer: | No. Please read the paragraphs "The AMIGA-conversions" and "The |
| current products" carefully. | |
| Question: | You're always talking about a new technology, what is it ? |
| Answer: | Our intellectual property. Therefore no information on this will be |
| made available to the public on request (please don't send us EMail, | |
| letters, call or fax us) but exclusivly on our own initative via our | |
| website. Any information not found on our website isn't true. | |
| Question: | When will you have finished works on the new technology ? |
| Answer: | As we don't want to put us under pressure with this strategically |
| important development, we won't release any time-table in near future. | |
| Question: | Which products do you plan ? |
| Answer: | Our information policy doesn't foresee the announcement of new products |
| at this time. | |
| Question: | I'd like to license this new technology. How much is it for a license ? |
| Answer: | We think about handing out licenses at a later time, but we haven't come |
| to a decision on this yet and therefore can't give you prices.. | |
| Question: | I'd like to betatest. Simply send me a beta! |
| Answer: | We won't send out betas. |
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