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Subj: Forwarded mail...
Date: Tue, May 9, 1995 3:48 PM EDT
From: fnf@amigalib.com
X-From: fnf@amigalib.com (Fred Fish)
To: DonHicks@aol.com (Don Hicks)
Forwarded message:
From fnf Mon May 8 19:49:52 1995
Message-Id: <m0s8fMu-0004nlC@amigalib.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 95 19:49 MST
From: fnf (Fred Fish)
To: fnf
Xref: news.indirect.com comp.sys.amiga.misc:79730
Path: news.indirect.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!wega.fibronics.de!odb!ganesha!combo.adsp.sub.org!peterk
From: peterk@combo.adsp.sub.org (Dr. Peter Kittel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Amiga Resurrection
Lines: 99
Message-ID: <peterk.08nm@combo.adsp.sub.org>
Date: 7 May 95 23:33:30 MEZ
Organization: Private Site
Mr. Schmitt, Boss of Escom, has authorized me to publish the state of
affairs.
Most important item first: I have my job, and it's the of the world-wide
boss of engineering. Yes, I know, I start into a very difficult task,
as successor of real celebrities. OTOH I had eleven years time at
Commodore to study what is the wrong strategy and which leads to success.
I will spend all effort to avoid these known errors.
And now for the big picture: There will be founded a new, completely
selfstanding daughter company of Escom AG. It will have own rooms at
an own address in Heppenheim. It will be the headquarter of the new
company, with control and coordination for the whole world. One subsidiary
will exist in any case in the Netherlands, and it will do Europe-wide
distribution and sales. Further country subsidiaries are not impossible.
Yet there are no concrete decisions about UK, USA, and Canada in particular.
The new company is yet to be founded, but this is currently in the works
with great effort. The name is not yet decided, it will probably be
something like "Commodore-Amiga" or "Amiga-Commodore" or the like.
This company will (at least for the time coming) care exclusively for the
Amiga model palette.
As can be inferred from the first paragraph, there will be an engineering
department, for hardware and OS software. For this there exist already
promising contacts with well-known and well-reputated names. Yet there's
no problem if someone feels obliged to send his resume (no email or fax,
please) to
Escom AG
Personalabteilung
Tiergartenstr. 9
D-64646 Heppenheim
Germany
You see, we consider ourselves an international company. Of course we
only want the best ones :-).
Further there will be a Support department which will do world-wide
coordination, but also covers the german area. Thus most of these
people should be german-speaking. The Amiga Developer Support Programm
ADSP will get reactivated ASAP. About those developers currently using
BIX or CIX, we have not yet decided. These people should feel free to
contact me directly at this private account (no company one *yet*
existing) and giving some input. In the past years there was a split
among the developer community into different communication channels. Thus
no direct communication of the developers among each other was possible,
and for engineering this meant double work to explain the same issues
once on one net and then additionally on another net. We will do everything
to avoid this nonsense in future. There are big obstacles, as there are
big cost differences in different regions of the earth, and simultaneously
a high degree of confidentiality has to be maintained. - Enduser support
will happen mostly in electronic form, via mailbox, Internet, and probably
also Btx.
Of course there will be also a Marketing department and what is needed
in admin. All together this will be a rather slim company of ca. 50
people at first, but a further expansion is of course not impossible.
It is planned to restart production of the last current model palette,
probably in full scale, but no guarantee yet for this. Also of course
not all models will appear at the same time again, one after the other.
As Escom has an own poweful casing production, they will perhaps get
a redesign of their styling, in any case for the A4000, but the hardware
under the hood remains unchanged at first. First diverse contributing
factories on earth have to revive their production of parts. New
developments would mean additional months of waiting, before you could
buy the products. That would be too big a sacrifice.
The direction of the new engineering department will definitely be the
port to some RISC platform. The choice of this RISC is still open. There
are ecstatic advocats for at least two alternatives, PPC and HP PA RISC.
Chris Ludwig gave an interesting interview about this. It will be the
first task of engineering to prepare this choice of paths into the
future with all possible expertise.
It has been decided to be very liberal in regards of licensing in the
future. So, whoever wants to build e.g. an Amiga Laptop or a set-top
box, can get chips and OS!
As you all see, much of this is still a letter of intent. The points which
are declared as still open are *really* open, so there's no use in
bombarding me with further questions.
As my work load, at least now in the building phase, will be immense,
I can't guarantee my presence on the net like before. But who knows me,
knows that that would be most painful for me myself. So let's look
forward.
In the next weeks there will be press conferences to tell more and
more details.
Long live the Amiga and for a good cooperation.
--
Best Regards, Dr. Peter Kittel //
Private Site in Frankfurt, Germany \X/ Email to: peterk@combo.ganesha.com
Now re-employed at The New Commodore in Heppenheim, Germany
Stay cool, not cold (Cool bleiben, nicht kalt); H. J. Friedrichs
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