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From:nobbyfu
Date:2 Jun 2001 at 02:49:57
Subject:Re: Latest AA Magazine - Tao

Hello michael.slyfield

On 31-May-01, you wrote:

> Jim
>
>>> I thought the article on pages 30-1 was extremely interesting.
>
> Why thank you. It might prove even more intriguing to learn that due to
> the necessities of NDA's and certain other "restrictions", we had to limit
> ourselves with precisely what could be revealed in the article, at least
> for the time being. To feel that you are involved in a creative process
> with the encouragement to innovate is a very liberating experience,
> exhilerating even.
>
>> Yeah, me too. It made me wonder whether everyone that Tao liases with is
>> made aware of AmidaDE "by default", as they (Tao) are doing rather nicely
>> for themselves. I wonder if there could be an explosion of interest
>> waiting to happen?
>
> Tao have a world beating innovation on their hands but it's still an up
> hill struggle and will remain so for some time to come. They are still a
> small fish in a shark infested ocean and are not, and never will be, in a
> position to take on the likes of Microsoft head on in their own core
> market.
>
> Larry's article in Rants & Raves is right on the money, Tao's philosophy
> must be "by any means necessary" and whether or not it is pertinent to
> reveal Amiga's involvement is a judgement call best left to man on the
> spot. However, knowing some of the individuals concerned, I have
> absolutely no doubt that whenever the relevance of the AmigaDE is
> perceived, it's merits are pushed to the hilt; and we should probably be
> happy enough with that.
>
> We now all know that Amiga's future is inexorably linked with Tao's and
> they are acutely aware that they stand in a potentially powerful position
> as the digital environment evolves around us. That if a company like
> Symbol, with their millions of constantly replaceable hardware units,
> decide to migrate their drivers to Java via Elate, the existence of the
> AmigaDE would (at least in the short term) be entirely academic.
>
> This situation could change rapidly once a Tao "controlled" infrastructure
> is established; should the company in question realise that their
> previously task designated hardware now has much wider utility and
> increased profitability, the growth of the AmigaDE might occur almost by
> default (with a judicious push here and there).
>
> Here's a taster for you: after extolling the potential virtues of both Tao
> the AmigaOne to Symbol these last few months, I've just leaned of high
> level discussions whereby Symbol might aggressively market their
> Spectrum24 wireless network in a more domestic direction; if they could
> only identify an appropriate home server type host for it

Although in the small minority,i am one of the Amiga users that enjoys using
the Amiga computer as it is,a classic platform,i could gorge myself on all
of the programs and games that leak out as freeware or othereware.If the
Amiga ever finally dies as a modern computer i will still be using my
Amiga's because i enjoy using them.I'm never going to be a programmer or
computer wizz but nothing will ever stop me believing in myself or my
computers ability.Therefore i wll try to remind people of the thing that
got us involved with the amazing Amiga format in the fisrt place ,
--The AMIGA computer --
This isn't really a reply to the original post but merely my feelings
towards the recent 'new amiga debate'
cheers,
--nobby-quite happy with wot he's got thak you vey much:-)

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