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[News] News from the Amiga2k banquetANN.lu
Posted on 02-Apr-2000 15:01 GMT by Christian Kemp54 comments
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Here's a copy&paste from Czech Amiga News. Roger Wyatt is quoted as saying Bill McEwean's after dinner talk and demonstration was stunning in its sweep, complexity, and scope. Here are a few highlights:
  • Newtek has placed its source code for the Toaster and Flyer into Open Source status. See www.toaster.amiga.org for details.
  • Greenboy of the Phoenix Group joined Amiga's Gary Peake on stage to shake hands and announce that there was no split in the Amiga community. Phoenix and Amiga are working together.
  • Sun is a strategic partner of Amiga.
  • Bill McEwen: "Our success will be the embrase of Java." Expect to see many Java apps for Amiga.
  • Red Hat is another strategic partner. So is Corel. Amiga will be the common consumer application layer for 26 different versions of Linux.
  • The new Amiga developer environment will run on top of a Red Hat Linux base and foundation.
  • Amiga will be the common consumer interface for Corel Linux apps.
  • Thus Amiga will provide Java and Linux with a common interface. Amiga will be extensibile running on cell phones to servers.
  • 117 current Amiga titles are being ported to the Tao based New Amiga OS.
  • Espial is providing an 800k java web browser for New Amiga.
  • There will be a new version of Scala for the new OS.
  • Animators from Disney provided the conceptual designs for the look of the new hardware reference designs. They are beautiful. They will be going up soon on the Amiga website. Disney used over 500 Amigas to produce computer animation for their films.
  • Amiga is aligned with an array of consumer electronic firms including Sony, JVC, and others.
  • There will be an upcoming announcement regarding Amiga participation in a global ISP alliance.
  • In the weeks to come Tech Head Stories will provide both in-depth analysis of the Amiga announcements in streaming video, text, and graphic formats. Stay tuned.
I didn't manage to get a confirmation for all this. Only Czech Amiga News has original coverage, amiga-news.de copied it from there. Moo Bunny seems to be down and amiga.org has nothing on this either. A quick search on comp.sys.amiga.misc also yielded no results.
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