| [News] Phase5 files for bankruptcy | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 09-Feb-2000 14:46 GMT by Christian Kemp | 41 comments
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amiga-news.de reports [page in German language] that Phase5 filed for bankruptcy on 26-01-2000. They are talking with interested parties about the purchase and continued support of their amiga technology, trying to enable further development of their products, especially the new G4 cards. People who ordered products or prepaid for them will be contacted by them.
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| Posted by Mike Bouma on 08-Feb-2000 23:00 GMT | Phase5 was struggling for years, but they kept going in the hope to keep the Amiga up to date and built a new computer with a state of the art technology. I will remember them as a GREAT hardware manufacturer, as that is what phase5 was.
But all is not lost. In a future where the Amiga community will be hardware independent. These kind of things won`t hurt us. Think of it, even if IBM would have gone broke in the early nineties when Amiga was still far superior, IBM compatibles would have still been made. And IBM would only be remembered as an ancient pioneer. This is because everyone was allowed to built clones.
I hope this is a real eye-opener for the rest of the community that still believe that porting the OS to PPC would keep the Amiga alive. NO, we need to concentrate on being ahead of the competition and not trying to keep up. We NEED to attract NEW users, the remaining userbase is not enough to solely support a new computer platform. There still is a very high percentage of talent in the community left, but the ordinary non-expert people have all left.
We must work together with Amiga/Tao Group (and Phoenix/QNX) to make an attempt to bring clean and innovative computing back into the homes. And not having to settle for inferior but yet good supported technology monopolies.
Sincerely, Mike Bouma.
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