Genesi now listed as IBM Partner on IBM's site

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Well, we think there is a difference here...

IBM and IBM Global Business Partners will be selling the Pegasos as a thin client in a total system package. Why the Dell not?! IBM sells services. When they sell an enterprise network to a corporate customer they often continue to “own” the entire system. The customer contracts for the entire package. IBM insures that everything is working and that the latest and greatest is there running as it should. Why should IBM continue to sell a PC when they begin to promote a Linux desktop? First, they throw out Windows (replaced with Linux) and then the Intel-based CPU/PC can be replaced with a PowerPC based system that runs on an IBM CPU. All IBM is doing is connecting the dots from client desktop to enterprise network and ultimately to the "GRID" that IBM now extols (the Matrix is coming!). IBM’s recent investment in Novell and Novell’s acquisition of SuSE is an indication of the coming opportunity and the harbinger of the Genesi revolution. Linux distribution SuSE and the Novell® Nterprise Linux Service package that is being promoted by IBM worldwide run today on the Pegasos. For example, a number of Novell Resellers will start promoting the Pegasos next week.

Pegasos II sales/pre-orders have passed the 1500 unit mark. These are the combined sales based on Reseller, Internet, and institutional/corporate orders. Congratulations to Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda. Your years of hard work and dedication are paying off and thanks to you we have the fundamental ingredient required to march forward to our future. Congratulations to the two of you. In 2002 you won the Amiga Award. We can only surmise the accolades you will be awarded when an IT review will be made for 2003.

The MorphOS Developer Connection now has over 400 Registered Developers with Developers that range from over 50 countries. Congratulations to all of you! The Connection has become a progressively useful tool to all those involved because you all contribute and work together to advance the operating system and the platform. Special congratulations to the Core MorphOS Development Team and especially to Ralph Schmidt. We salute you! Thanks also to Felix Schwarz who created the site and moderates it during the start-up period. Felix is moving back to IOSpirit now, but without him we would not have been able to get all this organized. Thanks Felix! As we move ahead, we will be opening more than a dozen new Developer Connection sites with the advent of the Pegasos II. All these “external” developer support sites will be integrated under the Phoenix umbrella and will add new features to make the sites even more integrated and useful.

All said, things are happening and MorphOS will be with every single Pegasos sold to those that are attracted to the open platform and the opportunity to have a Linux Desktop...

...then we will show them MorphOS! :-D

Congratulations to all!

R&B :-)

[bbrv]

Hi Code, from a strictly administrative point of view you are still right -- this week -- but this relationship will continue to evolve.  :-)

Could we point out to you that what we have is a complete platform: hardware, operating system and soon even an application ALL certified.  By comparison that is very different.  This package is more attractive to a broader market and much more than a single chip.  Can you understand our perspective?  :-)

Thanks for the compliment!

R&B  :-)

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Hi Kees, normally we would agree with you, but in this case shouldn't the concern be focused on the other project as it was mentioned in the first two posts.  The AmigaOne is mentioned, but the AmigaOne is not listed as Ready for IBM Technology though it would be easy for Mai to add this to the Teron listing.

Frankly, there is absolutely no comparison to what we have done and are doing.  Not to mention the fact the all of our IP and technology rests in ONE company.

R&B  :-)

[bbrv]

Hi CodeSmith, this depends on your perspective...

A computing platform itself is the foundation to any complete computing environment.  You want to build a STB, workstation, SuperTiVo, a incredible document manager/firewall/make anything happen network box?  You have to have hardware, OS, and application software.

Apple is not an open platform.  We are.  That is why there are over a dozen operating systems running on the Pegasos.  It is a building block to make something else from.  Computers are not an end in themselves, they are a means to an end.  What do you want to do?  :-)

As for MorphOS, it is small and ours.  There are less memory requirements and no license fees to pay, thus less cost.  Cost is an important factor.

We are in the same time zone as you now, but this is it for the day for us!  Happy day after Thanksgiving CodeSmith -- quick question: are you what you ate?!

Gooble Gooble!

R&B  :-)

[bbrv]

..no worries CodeSmith that makes me a turkey too!

Bill :-)