| [News] Petro not leaving Amiga | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 14-Sep-2000 14:01 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 22 comments
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Czech Amiga News posted the following: "Kleng Hodnefjell asked Petro if 'Is it true that he quit ?' Here is the answer: 'Sorry but I have no plans to quit. I have only invested 50 % in Power Service, which is a company I believe in. It is no Computer Company and no competition... Power Service is a Job agency for IT Specialists. I will continue with my beloved AMIGA. Best regards and thanks for your mail...Petro'"
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| Posted by Martin Baute on 17-Sep-2000 22:00 GMT | : He kept their office going, gained constracts, and AIK he organized the
: restarting of manufacturing of Amigas at under Escom, not mentioning (sadly
: unfinished) "vacuum cleaner" project (how they called it?), etc.
Walker. Sadly unfinished? 030/40, 1 MByte ChipRAM, AGA, some pseudo-PCI slot... this thingy stank! (I don´t flame the case design, because I actually liked it ;-) )
: Petro doesn't *appear* to have done much for the Amiga, I agree. However,
: this is because he's been busy actually running it for a long time, as well
: as being a representative."
Petro was brilliant at keeping Amiga more or less afloat, fixing the Escom and Gateway deals. Granted.
But he has neither technological knowledge nor vision.
But I *don´t* want to see him in charge of Amiga marketing. (Personal opinion, mind you.) As nice as the Amiga socks are (warm and cosy and all), I´d rather see some ads that people don´t laugh at, like they did with the Amiga matches or AmiCola. (The latter, however, had the advantage of being the cheapest drink available in Cologne last year. ;-) )
: Ya, lets not forget he gave us those groovy little Boing Ball Beach Balls..
About the only merchandising gadget I didn´t get my hands on. :-(
: When Petro was running the marketing show we had all kinds of fun stuff to
: spread around UGs, and he was generously giving them away. What do we have
: now? Very little. The new Amiga has really failed with UG support, even
: Gateway was better ('cause Petro was running that part of PR). I hope they'd
: let Petro continue with his goodwill gestures...
I hope the Snoqualmie gang is concentrating 100% on creating *product*, both time and money wise. While it´s nice to show off your Amiga ball-pen and t-shirt, if we want user groups to *continue*, we need a *system* to support, not some logo merchandising stuff to wave around.
Or put it this way: Choose between the Gateway/Amiga products (merchandise) and the Amino/Amiga products (SDK, d´Amiga, AmigaOne coming up)... |
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