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- {subhead} June/July 1999 Amiga update{def}{p}
- Article by Amiga
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- The following is an update on Amiga's activities direct from the home
- office.
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- Copyright by AMIGA
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- Executive Update{p}
- · · UPDATE ON MAJOR ACTIVITIES{p}
- June/July 1999
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- {bold}Operations/Planning:{nobold}
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- 1) We have identified an office building for our
- operations in San Diego. We will be moving out of the Gateway
- building into a separate building in order to accommodate the
- expansion in Amiga's staff.
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- {bold}New Management Staff:{nobold}
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- 1) We hired Dave Curtis as director of object technology and
- transaction services. Dave will be responsible for developing our
- transactional object technology. Dave was one of the original
- architects of CORBA and has worked for Inprise (Borland), the Object
- Management Group (OMG), and other organizations focused on object
- oriented technology. Dave's expertise will help us implement
- transactional object technology in the Amiga Operating Environment.
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- 2) We hired Dr. Jim Miller as director of user experience. Jim will
- be responsible for all user interface design and software
- development. Jim has worked in the human interaction groups of both
- Hewlett Packard and Apple Computers. Jim is highly respected and well
- known in the national and international user interaction (UI)
- community.
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- {bold}Major Development Programs:{nobold}
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- 1) O/S 3.5 - The target final release is August 21st at the Amiga
- Downunder show in Australia. We are talking to Amiga hardware
- development companies to qualify hardware products targeted at the
- O/S 3.5 release. We plan to come out with a recommended hardware
- configuration and list of qualified Amiga hardware products for the
- O/S 3.5 release.
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- 2) AmigaSoftTM Operating Environment (OE) We are developing our
- next generation operating environment including operating system,
- user interface, and some revolutionary software structures to be
- disclosed at a later date. Target beta version is late 3Q99 with
- final in late 4Q99. We are also looking at the possibility of porting
- this new AmigaSoftTM OE to the O/S 3.5 recommended hardware
- configurations. If we can accomplish this it will allow people to run
- the new OE on specific Amiga configurations with PowerPC boards.
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- 3) AmigaSoftTM development system. This is planned in late 3Q99
- along with the beta release of the new AmigaSoftTM Operating
- Environment.
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- 4) Amiga Multimedia Convergence Computer (MCC): - We have finalized
- our industrial design and created foam models. - The next mechanical
- design step is hard models. These will be available for WoA and
- AmiWest. - We have initiated final schematics of the system board
- design.
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- {bold}Shows and Community Activities:{nobold}
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- 1) We held a telephone conference with the Amiga press to bring them
- up to speed on our plans.
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- 2) We received all of the nominations for Amiga Advisory Council
- (AAC) members. We will be notifying the top nominated members for
- approval in the next week. First AAC conference call should occur
- within two weeks.
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- 3) We initiated multiple Amiga hosted forums accessible though our
- Amiga website.
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- 4) We will sponsor and participate in the 1999 London World of Amiga
- show in late July.
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- 5) We are also planning to support the AmiWest show in late July.
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- 6) We are planning for the Cologne and Las Vegas shows in November.