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Posted on 23-Apr-2002 17:35 GMT by Tony Ianiri45 comments
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The boss of Power Computing Ltd (UK) expresses his point of view on the newsletter from Software Hut. We at Power Computing Ltd, have been in the Amiga Market since day one. We are dealers, which means, just in case, that we are always prepared to sell all products once they become available, trying to stay away from all the diatribes that have spurred recently, as we know that at the end, they only damage an already difficult Amiga market.

Surely if a new product comes out we are very happy to sell it, as long as it represent a good deal to our customers, and it is not changed on its way, as it has happened already with product like the Predator, that from a so much publicised original design, it became DCE’s G-REX with a different label.

We have followed www.ann.lu for years. After reading with great attention the long thread of messages generated by Software Hut’s recent newsletter, we have to say that we found “strange” that if… ”There is no factual basis behind what Software Hut have said about the AmigaOne.”, the answer, supposed to set a good example and prove it wrong, has used some seriously damaging allegations instead of facts, involving even more Amiga companies.

Is it really this the way those few Amiga companies which have kept the market alive? It is not vapourware that they have designed, manufactured and helped to sell spending a lot of money in advertising and offering technical support. We can’t sell vapourware but innovative products, like the ones that opened the PCI cards market to the Amiga.

Elbox is the only company that has actually tried to create new hardware based on new ideas without “recycling” project of other Amiga companies gone bust (or that just couldn’t develop a product further) and then pretending that was their own.

As a prove of our coherence, when we were told that the Shark would become available only with OS4, we removed it from our web site! Surely not because we hate Elbox?

Finally, should we follow the example and ask if were any products ever actually “manufactured” by Eyetech? Manufacturing goes ways beyond from buying someone else boards and putting your own sticker.

One thing make us happy, and is that, hopefully, the AmigaOne developer board, according what we have read so far, should be with the developers by now (if it is April 2002 that we were talking about). As the developer boards are going to be exactly the same, apart from the ROMs, then all these rumours should stop and we will see if the long waited AmigaOne has anything to do with some PPC Linux motherboards or is really an original project.

We are waiting to see all of these products materialized, including OS4, and we are prepared to make available from our web site all the ones that will prove more reliable. We are also contemplating, once the dust settles, to explore all the solutions and alternatives, to offer to our customers the best deals, as we always do.

Tony Ianiri

Power Computing Ltd
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