[News] Behind the Scenes of Amiga Inc. | ANN.lu |
Posted on 02-May-2003 13:33 GMT by Joe Pillow | 197 comments View flat View list |
In a posting here on ANN, Bolton Peck finally breaks his silence. He reports about his time at Amiga Inc., the court trial against his former employer and informs us who is the real CEO of Amiga. Moreover, Bolton gives a general overview into what has happened behind the scenes during the past 3 years...
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Behind the Scenes of Amiga Inc. : Comment 193 of 197 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Nate Downes on 07-May-2003 12:12 GMT | In reply to Comment 184 (Mr S): What surprises me is how Amiga Inc seemed to refuse to do business on
any terms but their own. One of the first areas that MBA's learn is
the art of the business contract negotiation. When I approached
Amiga, a few times over the years for very specific technologies, I
kept finding crossed and confusing communications from them. For
example, I had an opportunity to sell 100 A4000 motherboards to a
company that needed replacements for marginally running/failing units.
So, I tried to talk to AInc about buying 100 copies of the chipset
(no need for ROMs or CPU cards, as those would be taken from the
failing units) but got this massive runaround. One of Amiga Germany's
top people had no clue what chips the A4000 needed. I had to send her
a complete parts list, with the needed components highlighted. She
then went "Can't you buy these from electronics stores?"
That is when I knew that AInc was a dead end and told my friend that
worked for this company. The company upgraded to the NT Toaster in
order to try and save their software, but that failed. Very expensive
for them to replace the hard-worked-on material. Was cheaper to get
the A4000 mobo's, but AInc's inability to even sell chips that they
owned was the stumbling block. Would have netted them a good $20k in
profit, nothing to sneeze at. Heck, even IBM is your
ultra-best-friend for $20k, and they make billions in revenue a year. |
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