Exciting News has just come in that, Jim Collas is the new President of the Amiga corporate taking control over the future of the Amiga and has put development plans for the Amiga NG on the fast-track.
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Amiga Announces New President and Fast-track Development Plans
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. - February 26, 1999 - In a series of meetings in San Diego,
representatives of Amiga Inc. and Amiga International met to hammer out the
details of technical, strategic and marketing plans which will see the launch
of a range of new Amiga-based computers for the next millennium. The company
has relocated its headquarters to San Diego and Jim Collas will be serving as
the new president of Amiga.
"Amiga is an amazing opportunity that we must act on now or it will be lost
forever," said Collas. "The Amiga� platform is ideal for Internet-ready,
consumer-oriented digital appliances of the future. The Amiga name is
associated the world over with user-friendly, low cost, powerful computing.
We will take this philosophy into the next generation, enabling products from
hand held Internet appliances to high-end graphics computers that help the
user rather than frustrate them."
Collas, formerly a senior vice president for Amiga's parent company, Gateway,
will be running Amiga as a wholly independent subsidiary operation and will
integrate Amiga Inc. and Amiga International under the new Amiga corporate
structure. His leadership will allow the company to step up a fast - track
development program that is currently underway.
Amiga is planning to launch next generation products worldwide before the New
Year. They will be announcing detailed product plans and introducing several
of their strategic partners over the summer. Products currently targeted for
the initial launch are a development system, an Internet appliance, and a low
cost home computer in the tradition of the Amiga A500 that dominated home
computing in the late eighties and early nineties. The developers system will
be available with a software development suite for low cost development on
the new platform.
Jeff Schindler, in charge of product strategy for Amiga, is planning the new
Amiga product line. "The Amiga community has been doing incredible things on
a platform which hasn't had an official update in eight years," said
Schindler. "They deserve a system which lets them show off their talents."
Amiga's administrative center in San Diego will shortly be complemented by a
software development center under the leadership of Dr. Allan Havemose, vice
president of Engineering for Amiga, in San Jose, California. The Silicon
Valley team will be rapidly expanded over the coming months to develop
revolutionary Amiga multimedia layers over the real-time Neutrino OS core
from QNX Software Systems Ltd.
Petro Tyschtschenko will continue on as managing director of Amiga
International and will also play a critical role in guiding the current Amiga
community through the transition to the new Amiga architecture. "The new
Amiga plans are a rebirth for Amiga and an exciting journey into the future,"
said Tyschtschenko.
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