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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
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Posted by dtomlyn on 04-Dec-2002 16:12 GMT | In reply to Comment 20 (Marktime): Actually, Eyetech are in quite a good position...
Terrasoft are the distributors of the TeronCX boards in the US - Eyetech is the European, (maybe further?), equivalent... So hopefully Eyetech will sell few of those in addition to the A1.
In my book, the Pegasos is in big trouble, which is probably why the statement was 'published'.
I personally don't see any real future for Morphos, unless AOS4 dosen't take off, but who knows? I think that if Morphos actually runs on the normal TeronCX boards, then the authors of it are going to have their hands full writing drivers, stopping piracy, etc, which is the main reason the A1 exists, instead of just the TeronCX...
I happen to trust Eyetech / Hyperion more anyway - I've dealt with Eyetech in the past without any problems, and I respect the guys at Hyperion, since they've never given any FUD, and been very informative in their postings...
To be honest, I think the statement from Genesi? got the reply it deserved...
One things for sure, I'll be getting an AmigaOne when AOS4 is ready, and I'll be lending it to a few friends of mine, one of which is a senior computer analyst in London, (and my dad's girlfriend...), which can only be a good thing...:-) (I know a few people in the industry, but unfortunately most of the better ones are in America...:-( ).
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