[News] Eyetech Reply to BBRV open post. | ANN.lu |
Posted on 04-Dec-2002 13:31 GMT by Christian Kemp | 275 comments View flat View list |
Eyetech replied to Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco's recent posting in the AmigaOne group at Yahoo. This is a repost under my name, since the original poster asked for the article to be removed. I don't agree with the view that this message should be kept off ANN since it is an interesting read and presents, in a way, the other side of the story; but after some consideration decided to respect the original poster's wish to have his posting and name removed, and opted to create a duplicate.
I'm afraid Buck has exceeded even his usual level of bullshit and innuendo
on this one.
My take on this:
Our announcement of the G4 availability and pricing, and of the (solved)
Articia problem at the WoA SE was not what he expected. Since then we have
been innundated for dealership agreements from ex-Amiga dealers who have
(and their customers have) good memories of the Amiga OS and a growing
hatred of Windows. The polls, such as they, are show that the A1-XE G4 is by
far the most popular PPC platform for the Amiga community and this must also
have been a bit of a shock. (Is it also a coincidence that we've been the
recipients of an intense, targeted virus campaign since then, I wonder?)
Meanwhile Hyperions work on PPCBoot and linux has allowed the Teron
reference boards to get to a level where they can be usefully sold in the
Linux Market. As most on this list will know we have the rights to
distribute these boards in Europe and now Terrasoft do in the US. (We also
have distribution rights on the Teron based designs for the Amiga marker
worldwide). This has knackered Thendics plans for world domination of the
PPC Linux market.
Reading between the lines it seems that they are prepared to drop MorphOS
altogether if they can get their hands on OS4 to at least salvage something.
Buck plans to do this by suing Amiga Inc (for what?) and bribing us to
abandon the AmigaOne and Hyperion to port OS4 to the pegasos hardware .
Sorry, thats not on. You can only have sensible business arrangements with
people who are trustworthy and behave with integrity. There are plenty of
instances (which are inappropriate to reveal here) where these principles
have been completely abandoned on his side.
On their so-called relationship with MAI, we/hyperion have done more to help
MAI get the Teron design to the linux market than ever bplan have, alltough
I don't doubt that Gerald Carda made an important contribution to
identifying the Articia bug - I've every respect for him as a hardware
engineer.
As far as Thendic making their own boards is concerned thats a complete
joke. Its a matter of public record that Thendic-France incorporated as a
one-man company with the minimum 7500 euros of capital. Thendic, like us and
MAI do not actually make anything themselves, manufacture is all
subcontracted. In our case its to a Tiawanese specialist, in Thendic's its
to DCE. Based on our past experience of quality assurance and after sales
service from DCE I personally would never buy any DCE manufactured products
for resale again.
Well you did ask
Alan
|
|
List of all comments to this article |
Eyetech Reply to BBRV open post. : Comment 20 of 275 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Marktime on 04-Dec-2002 15:30 GMT | LAWD, people you don't get it, though both Bill and Alan recognize it.
We now have THREE companies selling the same board, the TeronCX board. The POP reference design boards using chips from MAI Logic.
Not TWO, we have THREE. And one is better and cheaper than the other two. And they sell internationally. But this is especially good for the North American market. I am sure, Germany will follow suit. If we have THREE, someday we will have FOUR. MAI is selling chipsets, after all, they would love to see this market expand.
Anyway, it should be clear already but anyway here's the deal. MorphOS is software that runs on any TeronCX motherboard. Pegasos's only claim at legitimacy was when they were the OTHER PowerPC solution....now they are just ONE of MANY solutions. MorphOS will run on ANY of the TeronCX boards.
You get it yet??? There is virtually no reason to buy a pegasos, unless it has the lowest price and highest quality, which it clearly does not. It is made by DCE (low quality) and the price is much higher than that of the Terrasoft Boxer.
Eyetech is in a little better shape, you still need to buy their board for the official 'amiga' solution, but there is no longer any reason at all to buy a pegasos, unless you are just a big Genesi fan.
If you are in the MorphOS camp, you are no longer tied at all to the Pegasos hardware....if morphOS is the next amiga...some say not, but if it is, then WOW you can buy the next Amiga for a full $100 less today than you could have just last week, thanks to Terrasoft Boxer.... |
|
List of all comments to this article (continued) |
|
- User Menu
-
- About ANN archives
- The ANN archives is powered by #AmigaZeux. It was updated daily (news last: 22-Oct-2004; comments last: 18-May-2005).
ANN.lu was created, previously owned and maintained by Christian Kemp, www.ckemp.com.
- Contribute
- Not possible at this time!
- Search ANN archives
- Advanced search
- Hosting
- ANN.lu was hosted by Dreamhost. Sign up through this link, mention "ckemp" as referrer and he will get a 10% commission on any account you purchase.
Please show your appreciation for any past, present and future work on ANN.lu by making a contribution via PayPal.
|