X5000 pre-orders

[jj]

Are you sure? What percentage of Hyperion does A-Eon own after the bailout?

Missed that, or is that really what happened when Hyperion were pretending they had not been made bankrupt and it was all an admin error ?

[jj]

$100k is not much when talking about bringing back a bankrupt business which included paying off debts and injecting enough cash for sustainable operation. How much is a bankrupt technology company with outdated technology worth?



I would not invest in PPC at this time for several reasons.

o PPC is dying (the selection of PPC CPUs is falling while the cost is rising).
o The potential target market is reduced too much by the high cost of PPC hardware.
o The AmigaOS technology and legal status are big questions.

I would not drop PPC support but rather try to diversify away from PPC. The Amiga is not competitive in the high priced workstation market. The PPC is not a good value for this market and the AmigaOS does not have the security for business applications and servers. High cost PPC Amigas miss the biggest potential of the Amiga market and I believe the economics are unsustainable.

PPC is going no where.  At least not at an enterprise level.  Power 8 getting used a lot in the insurance sector.