City of Kent Sells Naming Rights To Amiga

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300 Grand only allows you to pay maybe 6 or so high tech employees a year in the US, so they wouldn't gain much if they spent it on development at home. I imagine they'll be keeping Amiga India busy with the content.

The original Amiga prototype Lorraine was only developed by five or six people.

OS3.5 & 3.9 was probably not developed by more than this many full-time programmers (I'm not including volunteer beta-testers).

Commodore always had small R&D teams in the 1980s and they got a lot done.

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redfox wrote:
If this is for real, it could be really good exposure.

Exposure for WHAT?  So what if the visiting ublic sees the AMIGA name in ten foot high letters on the Stadium?  There are NO products an actual stadium-going consumer can buy.  What's the point of getting exposure if you have NOTHING to sell?

And for the record, I too think the new web-site is "passable" but a bit amateurish looking.  It seems to me this site was just quickly popped up because the (one) folk at Amiga Inc. knew these press released would mean that someone is going to actually be checking out the company's homepage.

And isn't it a little bizarre that Amiga Anywhere (TM) products are now supposedly available for sale on a minor league hockey team's website? (http://www.amiga.com/sales/).

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TheMagicM wrote:
I dont think they have the money for this.  If they do they're definitely not going to use it for the Amiga community.  They're just milking the name like the people who own the Commodore brand.

How are they milking the name?  This is a venture that is COSTING Amiga, Inc. and probably not going to make them any money.  

It just makes no sense at all for a company with almost no products, no staff and no money to pay $300,000 a year for what essentially is a huge billboard advertising campaign in a smallish city in Washington State.

At least the Commodore trademark owners have actual products that people can buy.

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TJLAZER wrote:
I would hardly call the Seattle Metropolitan area a smallish city!!!

I'm just going by the descriptions of the several Amiga.org posters who've actually been to Kent, Washington.  They stated it was a smallish city.