Gateway to Hemorrhage More Jobs, Products

[Kent]

While I'm sorry to see this happening to a company I was once Webmaster for (speaking of the employees they are axing), I do hope Gateway goes down in flames and whatever is left of the AmigaIP is purchased before some k-niving business gets their hands on it.

Business point of view:  Looks like they are wedging themselves into a very nice "Please buy me" location.  Many people know eMachines, and many people know Gateway, but who will buy the corporation?  Enron perhaps?

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[Kent]

I didn't know that you were the webmaster for Gateway. Were you responsible for the whole site, or just the amiga.com domain? How long did you work for them?

I didn't do much work with Amiga.com.  Most of my work was done developing communications tools used for inter-department sales associated with the internet.  Other work revolved around writing custom scripts for JAWS and WinEyes (Visual Assistance software) so those who had bad or no eye-sight could work with the tools they had.  One of the nice things I did have was a direct line into the "CEO of Amiga for the week." Though, when we were slow and not being bombarded with thousands of e-mails a day, I had to take care of the really obscure noone knew anything about type emails... which usually involved the Amiga (YAY!)  They originally hired me in '97 (the year the purchase was made) and they booted me up to the internet where I made phat cash rollin in 42K yearly by doing barely anything, I was more or less the Amiga liason for the internet team.  Then the bean counter came in and I got waxed with a slice of pie.  Meaning, my pension check was given to me the day I left, and later sent via post so I got twice the pension I should have.  I later went down to unemployment and milked the system raw while I attended school.  I was there until Feb 3rd of 2001.  I even received top honors in training for Y2K and had lunch with Ted Waite at a damn fine place.  So now, here I sit, still bitter as hell about Gateway letting me go and happy they are falling apart.  I feel for those who have lost their jobs and any who are on the way out.  Except for the bean counter from at&t, who should be responsible for all Gateway's debts.

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[Kent]

bugs in their Internet connectivity software

Their internet connectivity software is a rebranded AOL/Compuserve client.  Originally it was their own creation, but it didn't last.

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