Post by: System on August 28, 2007, 06:45:47 PM
“Amiga is an incredibly innovative company poised for great things,” said Dramis. “Their vision as a content provider for platforms ranging from handheld devices to servers is made possible by the forethought of their founders. I’m very excited to help guide Amiga’s evolution to multimedia technology leader.”
Fran Dramis joined BellSouth in 1998 and retired when the company was acquired by AT&T, retiring in 2007. His departments received several awards during his tenure, including Computerworld’s 100 Best Places to Work in IT, SecurE-Biz Leadership Award, InformationWeek’s 500 Most Innovative Users of Technology, and CIO Magazine’s Enterprise Value Award. Prior to his work at BellSouth, Mr. Dramis founded CIO Strategy, Inc., an information technology consulting firm and was president and CEO of Network Management Inc. He previously served as president and chief operating officer of Telic Corporation and worked with AT&T, including Bell Labs, rising to the position of executive director of information product management. Mr. Dramis has been honored by industry publications such as CIO Magazine’s CIO 100 Award, CIO Magazine’s Top 100 Leaders for the Next Millennium, and Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders.
“Fran has set a bar for excellence and service that we hope to achieve at Amiga,” said Bill McEwen, Amiga's president. “We look forward to tapping into his experience which will be vital to us as we prepare to expand the company in new and multi-faceted directions. The staff and board are thrilled to welcome him and look forward to applying his leadership and vast technical expertise to additional industry success for Amiga.”
About Amiga
Amiga, Inc., initially founded in 1983 and re-established in 2000, is a computer software company with a rich heritage in game development and a focus on forging a path for multimedia platform development and hardware-independent technologies. For almost two decades Amiga’s software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, multimedia creators, and digital entertainment enthusiasts around the world. For more information, visit www.amiga.com.
Press Contact
Heather Lazenby
Revell-Pechar, Inc.
1-678-910-7178
heather@revellpechar.com
Post by: adonay on August 28, 2007, 06:52:31 PM
Post by: amiga_3k on August 28, 2007, 06:54:12 PM
edit:April's fools is late this year!
Post by: TheMagicM on August 28, 2007, 07:15:23 PM
Post by: Piru on August 28, 2007, 07:56:24 PM
Post by: Manu on August 28, 2007, 08:03:48 PM
Post by: derringer3 on August 28, 2007, 08:07:47 PM
So as I...
But He has joined to the so called advisory board. So He's not a CEO or commercial director or Anything serious in Ainc.
Post by: amiga_3k on August 28, 2007, 08:08:42 PM
Either way... I hope that this Fran didn't resign from his / her paying job!
Post by: derringer3 on August 28, 2007, 08:08:54 PM
Post by: A1260 on August 28, 2007, 08:28:17 PM
Post by: A1260 on August 28, 2007, 08:32:20 PM
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: what the hell is he smoking? his ten year unwashed sock or is it stronger stuff? :lol: :lol: :lol: It's hard to believe that they expect anyone to take this cuckoo-spit seriously :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Post by: Magic-Merl on August 28, 2007, 08:39:30 PM
Oh my god stop it.......it hurts when I laugh this hard.
Ha Ha Ha Ha HA.
Post by: Jose on August 28, 2007, 08:59:50 PM
Post by: spihunter on August 28, 2007, 09:05:40 PM
Post by: amiga_3k on August 28, 2007, 09:11:52 PM
From hard experience: If you sell, make sure to keep the best hardware you have! If you don't, you will regret it within five years.
Post by: Darth_X on August 28, 2007, 11:53:55 PM
here is what he looks like!
Post by: Darth_X on August 28, 2007, 11:55:04 PM
Don't forget to post some comments on how you feel about this here:
http://advice.cio.com/fran-dramis-leaving-bellsouth (http://advice.cio.com/fran-dramis-leaving-bellsouth)
Post by: Tripitaka on August 29, 2007, 01:04:05 AM
http://www.baselinemag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s=2100&a=184407&po=6,00.asp (http://www.baselinemag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s=2100&a=184407&po=6,00.asp)
Confused?
Post by: AmigaPete on August 29, 2007, 01:10:08 AM
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For all our mocking this is not the kind of guy who joins companies with no future.
What is the old saying... "There is always a first time for everything."
Pete :-)
Post by: huronking on August 29, 2007, 01:22:02 AM
Prior to the merger Bellsouth had 104 executives in Atlanta. Last I heard there were 4 left.
I wish the guy luck. If he is involved with Amiga
it's pretty clear he was looking for a job which
makes "retirement" probably an insult.
Post by: redfox on August 29, 2007, 01:33:57 AM
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Post by: amigakid on August 29, 2007, 07:19:59 AM
Post by: ilgulamc on August 29, 2007, 08:38:20 AM
www.revellpechar.com
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Press Contact
Heather Lazenby
Revell-Pechar, Inc.
1-678-910-7178
heather@revellpechar.com
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Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on August 29, 2007, 09:24:15 AM
Anybody want to take a chance calling them and asking if they got paid? :roll:
Post by: Colani1200 on August 29, 2007, 10:55:06 AM
Post by: bobamu on August 29, 2007, 02:42:32 PM
just what I was wondering
Post by: TheMagicM on August 29, 2007, 02:48:27 PM
There is a show on the Travel Channel called Bizzare Foods...Andrew Zimmern is the guy.. maybe Fran is really Andrew? See for yourself..
Fran:
![]("http://www.cio.com/archive/images/090102_104750130_R.jpg"/img)
Andrew from Bizzare Foods:
![]("http://travel.discovery.com/tv/bizarre-foods/gallery/journals_175.jpg"/img)
Post by: Opus on August 29, 2007, 02:48:33 PM
Post by: swoslover on August 29, 2007, 03:15:09 PM
Post by: jj on August 29, 2007, 03:22:36 PM
Post by: derringer3 on August 29, 2007, 03:23:45 PM
a Hungarian IT news wrote an article about the comeback of the amiga. (In late april when ainc annouces the new amiga HW.)
They wrote thath this is the 34th comeback of amiga. Funny eh?? And as it seems there is now new hardware from ainc.
But others have got much better stories about ainc lies. (or promises if you like)
Post by: Delta on August 29, 2007, 03:30:41 PM
Because that ain't positive, it's just....plain nothing as a news. We'd like to see hardware and software, not new guys that nobody gives a damn about.
How come a broke company like Ainc hires IT professionals that could have a real job elsewhere? Either the guy is already rich and retiring or he's just desperate and its an alternative to suicide :lol:
Post by: Matt_H on August 29, 2007, 03:37:34 PM
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Post by: weirdami on August 29, 2007, 04:51:20 PM
Post by: redrumloa on August 29, 2007, 04:53:28 PM
Post by: Argus on August 29, 2007, 06:12:23 PM
btw, could this mean Annex will be hired back :-D
Post by: MrZoon on August 29, 2007, 07:04:32 PM
I think so, Brain, but giant larvae are sooo much tastier than mobile multimedia devices...
NARF! ~8Þ
Yawn.. back to the cave...
Post by: amiga_3k on August 29, 2007, 07:48:28 PM
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Poster: Matt_H Posted: 2007/8/29 16:37:34
Hopefully his first role as advisor will be to advise them to settle the damn lawsuit.
If he does the job properly he first analyzes the situation, then do the advising part of the job. Although advises are useless if nothing is done with them...
So, to make the job easier, I've done some thinking and came with the following (please, don't take this all too serious, for I'm enjoying a beer or two in the mean-time):
Situation:
1) There is an Amiga OS but no hardware.
2) Amiga Inc. is suspected to have not a huge amount of money to spent on research and development.
3) The Amiga OS needs add-ons to make it a complete product, compared to Linux, Windows and OS X.
4) A stupid cat-fight is going on between A Inc. and Hyperion.
Advises to change the situation:
1) Short term solution: License OS 4 to be released for anything using a PPC G3 or newer processor (ie any Apple iMac, Macmini, Sam440). Long term solution: Get OS 4 ported to more commonly available hardware. Short term solution shouldn't cost a dime as it has been reported that OS4 runs on the mentioned PPC hardware).
2) Be more flexible in giving licenses on hardware and software. Ask a fair price and start making money. After a while, research and development should become a possibility again.
3) Use the funds from point 2 to create the missing links (up to date Browser [FF-port], Office Suit [Open office], support for modern hardware).
4) Call it a day with sueing and work out some plan where Amiga Inc. gets a few dollars per sold OS copy and where Hyperion gets more freedom to get the OS on more different hardware.
Ah well... this ain't gonna happen. Perhaps the best advise he can give is: 'Hey Bill, call it a day and let it die.'
Post by: B00tDisk on August 29, 2007, 09:43:25 PM
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Sounds like another meaningless Jeff Schindler, Jim Taylor, Jim Collas, Tom Schmidt type appointment to me from ye good olde Gateway days, a 'big ideas, small on details' guy.
btw, could this mean Annex will be hired back
Only if he gets to pork one of them.
Post by: a-pex on August 29, 2007, 10:11:10 PM
They have 79 indian developer developing hot air and waiting for money... :-D :-D :-D
Post by: a-pex on August 29, 2007, 10:15:25 PM
Post by: a-pex on August 29, 2007, 10:17:05 PM
Total 2005 Compensation: $3,763,100
Salary: $614,000
Bonus: $700,000
Other: $2,449,100
Post by: Akiko on August 30, 2007, 12:30:25 AM
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So any bets how long this guy will stay?
I'd say till around the time Scamiga bounces his first pay cheque!
Post by: huronking on August 30, 2007, 02:27:31 AM
The market for the 6th highest paid CIO in the
U.S. would have to be limited, but Fran Dramis
could do better than Ainc.
He made nearly $5 million a year on his own. That's roughly $6 million more than Amiga made since 1994.
There could be a Fran Dramis Arena in Kent if
he wanted.
He was the CIO, not the CTO, but still- given
his age what would the chances be that he was
an Amiga user back in the day?
Instead of laughing, just grab a beer. ;-)
Post by: number6 on August 30, 2007, 02:55:49 AM
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Well.. at least it seems Bill is learning from his mistakes.. It seems that they finally appointed a professional public relations firm for everything they will say from now on.
www.revellpechar.com
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Press Contact
Heather Lazenby
Revell-Pechar, Inc.
1-678-910-7178
heather@revellpechar.com
-endquote-
Nope. They are apparently not newly appointed.
Please read:
#34 (http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic_id=22930&forum=2&start=20&viewmode=flat&order=0)
#6
Post by: TheMagicM on August 30, 2007, 02:25:03 PM
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