The real reason why Jim Collas left

[ilgulamc]

Hello everybody,

I still remember like it was yesterday when Collas took over the Amiga and the excitement, things really looked like they where going to change.

Then all of a sudden he left and then was the chaos, Gateway promoted Tom Schmidt to fill the vacant place as vice President and COO, but even those days it was obvious that this was a move to sell Amiga or to just let it go off.

Now, many years have gone by, and I'm sure that something important (and that was kept confidential) happened for Jim Collas to leave Amiga. Did they fired him, did he leave because he got in a fight with  Ted Waitt? Did he see the dot com revolution real direction and left because that was the only way to sell his stock options at a reasonable price. Do you know something more?

Here you can find a short article about him leaving.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-515585.html

I’m curious to know your opinions.

Thanks

[ilgulamc]

@all:

Ok, this explains why Gateway did what they did with amiga. But my question was not about Gateway, it was about JIM COLLAS, a man who worked for many years as a top manager for Gateway and all of a sudden left the company.

Not only, Gateway licensed the amiga name to amino, but even though Collas looked very positive about the amiga/linux solution, when he left he didn't turn back to amino.

Now, I seem to remember something like McEwen or Fleecy beeing fired by Gateway, during or before the Collas era, and this could be the reason why Collas didn't want to get in business with them.

What do you think? (about Collas, not Gateway!)

[ilgulamc]

Damn! I never heard about this before, this comes as a shock to me!

It looks like the real truth about Collas leaving the scene is comming out.

What about him fireing Fleecy? do anybody remember about that?

[ilgulamc]

ltstanfo wrote:

I am actually quite surprised that this story is returning.  It was common knowledge in the AMIGA community at the time of Collas's dismissal.  This was never a secret so how is it that so many here seem to not know anything about it?  Or is this the younger generation of Amigans just now catching up (those that did not get to attend the shows / were not around at the time)?

I didn't know about this, even though I've been reading and writing on these forums daily at those times.. It is true that I never attended a show and probably that is the reason i didn't know about it.

I am quite sure that "truth" never came out on the forums before, and if I can tell you I am quite shocked about that too..

Well in France when something goes wrong they say "Cherchez la famme!" that translates as "Look for the woman, if something went wrong there must be a woman somewhere that has something to do about it..."

[ilgulamc]

sigh... I want Collas back!

Since you're all so informed, can anybody explain me why they fired Fleecy back in the days?

Thanks.