Indeed the Amiga OS situation is kind of hidden on Amiga.com. What seems to be covered better now is the history of the Amiga, unfortunately a sneak-peek in the future isn't present, nor can I remember seeing a link to Hyperion's OS4 site. Even more frustrating is the fact that Hyperion is not among the partners-list.
On AmigaWorld there was a mentioning of the new office adress of Amiga Inc. This got me to, once again, do a 'whois' on Amiga.com. Then I see the name of Vince Pfeifer as a VP (Vice President?) of Amiga. As copy and paste is easy, the name was pasted in Google before I knew it which presented me with a piece of written
text from the Stone-age. It contains a section where Vince is introducing him self. Now, his reasons to join Amiga are a bit strange in my eyes:
Source: the above linked text, a.d. 2000 so really old non-news[i/]
Why I joined Amiga, by Vincent P. Pfeifer
Other than the belief that Bill McEwen could sell ice cubes to Eskimos, I joined Amiga to take on the challenge of turning a company's name and image that has become somewhat dated here in the United States into a top level, respected company in the computer industry. As I am coming off a successful venture in helping turn GraphOn into a publicly traded company with record revenues from the position of Vice President of Product Development, I was ready for a new set of responsibilities in more areas than Product Management and Engineering.
Amiga offers a challenge that I look forward to: build a company from the bottom up with the benefit of having name recognition and some technology already in place.
It is an opportunity to do something that I have wanted to do since my early days at 5th Generation when I sat on the Tech Support phones and listened to average users try to use relatively complicated software. I know that it sounds like a religious crusade, but I want to make computers easier for the masses, and with my position at Amiga, I have an opportunity to help influence that vision significantly.
Now, encouraging :crazy:
not. Or am I just a little too negative?
So, maybe the next 20 questions should be at the adress of Vincent.
