Amiga India? Hoax or true?

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Oli_hd wrote:
I hope for the love of god its a hoax. :-(
Apart from the Amiga DE logo and name it could be anyone... the sad thing is a news post has appeared on aw.net from this company saying its legit.

Why so glum?

India along with China are boom countries right now.  A share in a lucrative market in an rapidly developing region... not bad news, just perhaps a future source of revenue for Amiga.  While there is risk for any telecoms startup, I imagine a lot of consideration would have gone into the acquisition, including posibilities of merging technologies.

Jarrod.

[jarrody2k]

The best thing about this is counting the amount of pages where you can see Amiga and Microsoft written in the same spot.  It's great fun.

Jarrod.

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c64_d0c wrote:
yeah slave work in india...

While the US licks its economic wounds and distracted with skirmishes far from and irrelevant to its borders, India and China are emerging as new powerhouses in the world economy.  The workforce in these countries lack the apathy of other nations while all the while acquiring increasingly better standards of living and a large appetite for modern consumer goods (like mobiles).

Of course, capitalism follows whatever countries provide the best opportunities (even in 'communist' China).  A large, highly skilled contigent of professionals are emerging from India and, given a very favourable currency, multinationals (including Amiga) have their best revenue interests at heart to utilise such a resource pool.

From the indian workers' point of view, its good money.  From Amiga's point of view, its good profit.  Everybody wins (except those without a job).

Jarrod.

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amije wrote:

Boot_WB wrote:
If this is for real this is really good news.

but for who? i didn't saw anything ''amiga related'' except the logo.

I don't think this is for building or improving AmigaOS.  It is likely a source of revenue for Amiga Inc.  AmigaDevIndia would likely be developing apps on top of the AmigaAnywhere layer to provide solutions for mobile companies.

Mobile software was the original focus of the Indian company anyway so it's a less risky prospect then shifting the workforce to work for AmigaOS.  But the idea of the acquisition will be to yield sustainable cash flow from what appears to be a solid company with a steady stream of work from established clients.

But I only ever speculate

Jarrod.

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downix wrote:

dammy wrote:

While the US licks its economic wounds

I don't think so.

Dammy
Who needs OS4?

Um, dammy.  The GDP grew at 3.5%, while inflation was at 4%, which mean a let loss of half a percent....  End result, the economy continues to shrink, has for the past 6 years.  Add in the devaluation of the dollar, and we're looking at double-digit inflation rates, properly.

My post and Dammy's response is now a year old.  I'd like to gloat about how right I was that China was about ready to kick US economic ass, but unfortunately Australia's economy is also intrinsically linked with the US.  I'm sure the aftershocks of the recent US correction will translate locally in the coming months.  Though I will hope for the opposite.

Jarrod