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[News] Executive update delayedANN.lu
Posted on 11-Mar-2000 15:47 GMT by Christian Kemp12 comments
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Bill McEwen writes on amiga.de: I want to let you know that I am running a couple of days late on the new executive update. There is a great deal of information going in it, and we are preparing for the Amiga 2000 show in St. Louis where many exciting developments will be revealed. Again, I apologize for the lateness of the update, but I hope to have it up and finished by this Friday. I look forward to seeing all of you in St. Louis.
Executive update delayed : Comment 1 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Torsten on 10-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
A delay? Uhhh - thats something totally new...
Executive update delayed : Comment 2 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Chris Roccati on 10-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Torsten):
Yeah, delay... And in a month or two they'll say how cool would have
been the developer machine... but the hardware partner has decided to
break the agreements... and some time after tao group will say: this
is the new amiga, they will put up some nice screenshots; amiga inc
will say: "tao is no longer our software partner, we'll use
'whatever'". Tao will reply that this is a bad and unespected move
from amiga inc, they will then say that they're the real future
for the amiga and start collect developer registration, write press
releases and so on...
:)
Executive update delayed : Comment 3 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 10-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
I know things can get busy when you're the head honcho, but if you can't release an "executive update" on time what happens when it's time to release product. Hate to be blunt, but after five years of this nonsense I think I see a pattern emerging here...
Executive update delayed : Comment 4 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by John Block on 10-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
Remember the incident with the Transmeta logo in the video? Best to wait until deals are inked before saying anything.
Executive update delayed : Comment 6 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Chris Roccati on 11-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (John Block):
I'd be quite happy to know that the "transmeta" affair was actually an
incident; too bad that nobody will ever tell us what was really going
on. The same can be said with the so-breath-taking hardware that Mr.
Sassenrath (and others) claimed to have seen and still never came out
and nobody else spoke about....
At one point or another one starts to think that maybe, these people
are not that honest, after all...
Executive update delayed : Comment 7 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Richard S on 11-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Chris Roccati):
I fully agree! What was it that Carl Sassenrath saw that he said was the most breathtaking things he´d almost ever seen when he was allowed to see the plans that Amiga Inc. had. We have heard so many different things during the last couple of years. It would be interesting to know the truth in a documentary "Behind the scenes at Amiga since the fall of Commodore"....
Executive update delayed : Comment 8 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by John Block on 11-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Richard S):
My opinions:
Transmeta: JC made the mistake of taking pressure on csam be be representative of the whole community. He therefore gave too much away and Transmeta, fering that joining the dots (java, building on a form of linux, speed figures) would give away details of their plans pulled out.
Amigaobjects: questionable from a revenue stream angle. Anyone can write them. Replacement time for TV's and fridges etc. takes years.
Cancelling of Amiga: One would not for a moment suggest that there was any connection with Microsoft giving Gateway a massive order for set top boxes a week or so after.
Carl's vision: We have not seen what the Gateway produced AOL box does.
Executive update delayed : Comment 9 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Plain English on 11-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
Are we hearing more hot air from the clever bods at Amiga Inc.?
I can't understand how so many businesses could own something as clean as Amiga and not make anything of it (it's not even down to custom chips or anything like that, Macintosh made the move to PPC and did well with it).
It's hard to see an entire world-wide community getting wiped out by false promises and broken deadlines. Expect more of the same.
Executive update delayed : Comment 5 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Adam Szymczak on 11-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Anonymous):
It has taken you over years to figure out the pattern? It took me a couple of minutes after Commodore went bankrupt to figure out that probability of being able to buy a next-generation Amiga was zero.
But then again they do say that history repeats itself. How many screenshots, developer models, estimated street prices, announcements about new breakthroughs have Amigans seen since Commodore went bust?
Executive update delayed : Comment 12 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Vincent Perkins on 12-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
The amiga company better get moving as Microsoft has annouced the
XBOX!
vist www.xbox.com!
PS: Transmeta has got nothing to do with amiga any more!
Executive update delayed : Comment 10 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Michael Jantzen on 12-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
You hafta start wondering about the Amiga and what about it that makes it such a flop to companies in the post-Commodore world.
So far gateway has held the amiga ball the longest (not counting Commodore of course), but they wisely (?) dropped it off on some other company before it took them down too.
I still love Escom - 2nd largest PC maker in Europe (supposedly) and within a year of purchasing the Amiga they go (almost) completely out of business - in fact there's hardly any trace they still exist.
People keep harping on how bad a job Commodore did, however given the state of the current situation I rather have them running Commodore/Amiga - at least they had a plan and a method of getting there.
Michael Jantzen ^_^
Executive update delayed : Comment 11 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Mark S. Hone on 12-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
Will you guys stop moaning and go and read the Executive Update!
http://www.amiga.de/diary/executive/update10032000.html
Mark
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