| From: | Gary Peake |
| Date: | 23 Oct 2000 at 16:24:08 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga announcing silly named things? ;) |
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:58:49 +0000, Andy Hall <No_good@jgen.fsnet.co.uk>
wrote:
>Hello Philip
>
>On 22-Oct-00, you wrote:
>
>> Anyway the arguments on www.ann.lu have gone way OTT and started to
>> annoy me so I guess I am doing the same for ppl on this list. This
>> will be my last email on this matter..... unless I have something
>> profound to add (not likely ;0)
>
>I'm still waiting for Fleecy to reply to my questions about lack of partners
>and the poor software support. I don't think the arguments have gone OTT,
>I just think that what Amiga are hinting at and what is happening are two
>different things. I'm fed up of waiting for them to announce all these
>exciting developers. While I don't doubt that they will deliver a product,
>I am beginning to doubt that it will survive outside the market place. Tao
>have a revolutionary peice of technology there, and Amiga Inc have the
>chance to change the way we use computers and digital content.
To see some of the developers working with us, look at open@amiga.com or go
to http://www.amigadev.net and look for the menu item for mailing lists and
sign up for the Open list there. I should warn everyone however that this
is a DEVELOPER list and NOT an open chat list. Chatting will get you banned
from the list. Development talk ONLY. Look at the sig/tag lines and you
will get an idea of who is whom.
>There have only been two announced partners that I've been excited by, Corel
>and Matrox. One has been practically bought up by MS for use with .net (A
>rival of sorts to the DE) and the other is merely supplying GFX cards.
Apparently you have NOT been paying attention. Matrox is a DEVELOPER
partnership as I have stated here and elsewhere. While we are suggesting
their G400-450 chip at this time and doing work in that direction, we also
have some things going on which are under NDA. Our partnership with Matrox
has little to do with supplying gfx cards. It has much to do with a
technology exchange. I can't say more without causing NDA problems for
myself and Amiga. You can believe this today or scoff at it and see what
the future brings. Your choice.
>I'm begging Amiga Inc. to prove me wrong and pull major support out of the
>bag.
We have some partners that we can not yet announce for obvious and not so
obvious reasons. We also have work to do and in some cases, partners need
to be working in silence so they aren't bombarded with hundreds of emails
from people asking questions that can not be answered yet.
We are not out to "prove anyone wrong". We are out to transition the Amiga
computer from its ten year old legacy to the newest cutting edge of
technology. This takes time, effort, manpower, developers, and support from
people.
Our market is those people and developers who support us. We will listen to
them if they speak rationally to us as you can see from the latest
announcements.
Sincerely,
Gary Peake
Director - Developer Relations and Support
Amiga Inc.
http://www.amigadev.net
http://www.amiga.com
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