From: | michael.slyfield |
Date: | 31 May 2001 at 09:16:37 |
Subject: | Re: Latest AA Magazine - Tao |
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 ...................
Mick
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