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umours abound concerning the circumstances surrounding Stefan Domeyer's
resignation from Amiga Technologies shortly after the VIScorp 'intent of
sale' was announced. However it seems we haven't heard the last from
Mr Domeyer since he's just formed a new company called PIOS Computer AG. The
new shareholders in this company desire to crease a successor to the Amiga
for the Amiga community. Big news indeed, but what exactly do they plan to
do and who is behind the plans other than Domeyer?










Dr. Klaus F. Bröker, a business lawyer, was elected as the Chairman of the
Supervisory Board and during the first meeting of the board had this to say;




This was the start of a new company,
but if you add the experience and background of all founders, PIOS will
show it's will to succeed very soon. We decided to enter the North American
Market already in the initial phase.
Together with our partners, Mr. Dave Haynie and Mr. Andy Finkel, we will
found PIOS U.S. Incorporated within the next four weeks.
 - Dr. Bröker, Chairman PIOS
supervisory board.





Ex Commodore gurus Dave Haynie and Andy Finkel are involved in the PIOS
plan and will start up a new company in North American to head up the PIOS
operations on that side of the pond.




I know
exactly the reasons we failed with AMIGA. The only chance to keep it alive
is a new start, without some burdens due to the history. I think, the key
to success is simply to exceed our customers expectations on performance,
quality and price. We must do it as fast, but as good as possible. So, we
will form some strategic alliances with companies who have shown their
capabilities in design. -
Stefan Domeyer, President and CEO of PIOS AG






As if that wasn't enough, it turns out that the UK's own Amiga Technologies'
general manager, John Smith, resigned to take up a share in the PIOS
venture and head up their operations in the UK. John Smith says, "I want a
new generation of Power PCs, and I want to make it successful in UK!". PIOS
go on to reveal their strategy with the following quote, "The mission of PIOS
is to become a reasonable player in the market for consumer computer products.
The goal is to reach an overall market share in all countries PIOS goes into
of 10 percent until the year 2000. PIOS as a company follows the strategy
of developing and marketing PowerPC based architecture, in strong
competition to the Windows/Intel monopoly.". They go on to say, "This includes
the development and distribution of a native operating system, which will be
recognized by the market as the next generation of the former AMIGA OS 3.1.
To provide a pre-emptive multitasking OS with quasi-real-time behaviour will be
the biggest advantage of PIOS.  PIOS recognizes it's position as a
start-up company; small staff, small costs and small overhead."
"PIOS is heavily dependent on a good working relationship to it's customers,
vendors, design-partners, employees and shareholders. PIOS wants to become
big in competence, sales, market-share and shareholder-value."





Amiga in the main stream?





Big plans indeed for the new company, certainly targeting serious
percentages of the entire computing market means the PIOS team didn't set up
to strengthen a niche market but rather to bring their Amiga influenced
platform into the main-stream. Stefan Domeyer also confirmed to us that
Dr Kittel also of Amiga Technologies would be taking up a position within
PIOS. With such major players involved in the PIOS team, you can be sure CU
Amiga Magazine will bring you the latest news from this interesting
new development.





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