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Phoenix - How we were then
« on: May 10, 2003, 10:19:10 PM »
I've just been flicking through the C.S.A.M archives on and off today. I do this a couple of times a year, it usually give me an insight into the politics behind the drivel.

Anyways, I was looking through the stuff from the Gateway era, when I came across an announcement from the Phoenix Consortium.  

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Thanks, from the Phoenix Platform Consortium, currently:

     Alan Crandall       JMS
     Alan Swithenbank    Stanford Comp Systems Lab
     Albert Bailey       Flying Mice
     Andy Finkel         Met@box
     Aron Digulla        AROS
     Bart G Colbert      BG Colbert
     Berardino Baratta   MetroWerks
     Bill Bull           QNX
     Bill McEwen         Amino
     Bohdan Lechnowsky   REBOL
     Bruce Ellsworth     AmiTrace/ACSVideo
     Carl Sassenrath     REBOL
     Christian Kemp      ANN
     Clash Bowley        Flying Mice
     Dan Dodge           QNX
     Daryl Low           QNX Internship
     Dave Cook           GuruMeditationError
     Dave Haynie         Met@box
     dinglis             QNX
     Don Cox             Don Cox Computer Productions
     Drew S Tarmey       IAT Manufacturing
     Dr Greg Perry       GPSoftware
     Ed MacKenty         MacKenty Software Services
     Eric Herget         Ki Networks
     Fleecy Moss         Amino
     Frank Friesacher    QNX
     Fred Wright         The Wright Solution
     Gary Peake          Team AMIGA/OwlNet
     Geert Bevin         Thunderstorms/The Leaf
     Giorgio Gomelsky    JMS
     Glenn Davidson      Cloud Media
     G'o'tz Ohnesorge
     greenboy            Phoenix
     Hal Greenlee        HardDrivers
     Holger Kruse        Nordic Global
     Igor Kovalenko      Motorola iDEN
     Joanne Dow          Wizardess Designs
     Joe Gulizia         SCOLA
     Johan Rönnblom
     John Shepard
     Kevin Lowe          BrainDrops
     Kevin Tiernan       Elfnet
     Marc Albrecht       A.C.T.
     Mario Charest       Zinformatic
     Mario Saitti        Phoenix
     Marko Seppänen      Visual Engineer
     Martin McKenzie     CADTech
     Matt Sealey         U of Leicester
     Michael Battilana   Cloanto
     Mick Tinker         Access
     Odd H Sandvick
     Olaf Barthel        logical line GmbH
     Paul Lesurf         Blittersoft
     Paul May            Phoenix
     Paul Nolan          Paul Nolan Ltd
     Ray Akey            HMetalsoft/ZenMetal
     RJ Mical            Mical.org
     Robert Krten        PARSE/Cisco
     Ron Liechty         MetroWerks
     Rudi Chiarito       Magrathea Development
     Samuel A Falvo II   Dolphin
     Shaun Sauve         QNX
     Stephane Desrosiers
     Stephen Jones       Siamese Systems
     Steve Tomkins       QNX
     Tobias Abt          Picasso 96
     Vegard Berget
     Wolf Dietrich       phase 5


I wonder how much this line up has changed since then :-D
 

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Re: Phoenix - How we were then
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2003, 01:57:34 PM »
:lol:

Ah, the days when we were all one big happy family only talking crap about M$ :-).

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Re: Phoenix - How we were then
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2003, 03:01:06 PM »
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I wonder how much this line up has changed since then

I can tell you for one thing that it's about three times larger now.  :-)

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Re: Phoenix - How we were then
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2003, 04:09:38 PM »
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gary_c wrote:

I can tell you for one thing that it's about three times larger now.  :-)



But how many of the original members on that list are still active?

Also I wonder what the atmosphere would be like in a "Class of 99" style reunion  :-o
 

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Re: Phoenix - How we were then
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2003, 02:35:40 AM »
The membership reflects the shift of activity away from Amiga, Inc. and QNX and toward Genesi. There's still a significant number of people from the early days, but not necessarily those directly employed by companies on paths that didn't parallel Phoenix's direction. In most cases (the noteable exception being Amiga, Inc. itself, probably -- though with things being as tumultous as they've been lately, who knows?) bridges haven't been burned, though, and it's possible there could be cooperation again at some point in the future with whoever's traveling the same road.

As for a reunion, it's hard to predict human behavior, especially in groups. I guess there'd be either 1) sulking partisans holed up in separate parts of the room, 2) open warfare (food fights, fist fights, etc.) or 3) lots of beers and laughing all around. Your guess is as good as mine.  :-)

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Re: Phoenix - How we were then
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2003, 10:39:51 AM »
I'd say option 3. People tend to react way more emotional on the internet. With someone in their face people are usually a bit more empathic.

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Re: Phoenix - How we were then
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2003, 11:48:11 AM »
Id say 1.

Hate figure. :lol:
 

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Re: Phoenix - How we were then
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2003, 11:58:53 AM »
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Id say 1.


I'd say 1, until the beer started flowing, then 3, then as more beer flowed 2! ;-)