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- {subhead} Open letter from Petro Tyschtschenko{def}
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- {bold}March 2, 1999{nobold}
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- February 8, 1999 - a historical day.
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- This day reminded me of the spirit of 1985, when Amiga was presented to the
- world public in New York.
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- This time a vision is born: Making computers a natural part of everyday life.
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- It is almost 2 years ago, since the take over by Gateway. Many people know me as
- an impatient man and you may anticipate how difficult the period from March 97
- to February 8, 1999 was. A time of low communication with the Amiga community,
- low public relations and low information about visions, missions and goals.
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- But my dear Amigans, I can reassure you the ray of hope will become a bright
- sun within the next 6 month. The Amiga will be lead to the future under the
- technical experienced management of an absolute professional. Jim Collas,
- Senior Vice President Product Development & Management of Gateway, Inc. has
- decided to modify his position and to work for Amiga only. To reach all our
- goals, I will work on his side and support him with all my energy.
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- Our mission is:
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- To create a revolutionary and compelling systems architecture and operating
- environment for multimedia computers and digital information appliances which
- can easily be embedded into consumer computing devices and enables innovative
- Internet services.
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- Without talk big, I can tell you that in the middle of November 99 we will
- launch the new Amiga systems architecture and operation environment.
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- For this purpose we will organise press conferences to inform the public about
- our goals and directions. Besides the new and revolutionary Amiga Operating
- System we are working on our existing platform to present the upgrade 3.5 as
- soon as possible
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- First detailed information will be presented in St. Louis, USA (March 12. -
- 14.). We hope to be in the position to sell the first Operating System upgrades
- 3.5 in summer 99. The German company Haage & Partner and myself will take care
- about this project.
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- AMIGA International, Inc. and Amiga, Inc. will conquer as one team the computer
- world; under the management of Jim Collas - and you my dear Amigans, will be a
- part of it.
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- Help us performing our goals.
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- Jim Collas will inform you within the next days about the organisation, plans
- and goals of our company.
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- A very exciting time is coming and it is for me and my staff a honour to be a
- part of a new computer generation as pioneer and to pave the way for the future
- just like it was at Commodore.
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- Long live our beloved Amiga and our community
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- Yours{p}
- Petro Tyschtschenko{p}
- 2.March 1999