Amiga® To Provide Content For Next Generation Windows CE .NET-Based Devices

[Chathurawind]

After seing the techtv clip and now this

Now im starting to belive something is actually is happening  :-D

[System]

OH MY!!! :-D

I just loved reading this!  MS used to promote the AMIGA!!!

How VERY cleaver of Bill McEwen to get this accepted, not  to mention how this implies what the "Big Guys" think of AmigaDE!!!  ;-)

This made my day!!!

Bob C.

[whabang]

 :-D

[System]

Manitou, help us...

[Chathurawind]

IBM not doing anything? How about you get your head out of your arse and go and do some research.

[Bobsonsirjonny]

When was the last time you bought an IBM branded product. IBM are loaded - they own things. Its those individual companies that they own that does the stuff. IBM themselves sit back and rake the money in, and there's nothing wrong with that. Obviously they must be doing things to aquire those companies, but IBM themselves source technology, its the firms they own that develop it. I see the same happening with MS.  :-P

[redrumloa]

It's that smell, that smelly smell that smells and smells. anonymous poster.

How about you get your head out of your arse and go and do some research.

[theTAO]

I'm certainly not upsest by the announcement...DE was always meant to run on a wide range of hardware, and .Net, PocketPC, etc. are just more platforms.

What does concern me is Microsoft's infamous record of adopting technologies and then altering them in a proprietary way (embrace, extend, extinguish).  Surely they must see DE in a similar light as Java...a platform that runs on top of any OS and makes that OS inconsequential...and we all know the legal battles Sun faced.  If the press release does signal a major partnership, it is noteworthy because DE may be the largest completely external technology Microsoft have used in one of their products in a long time, maybe since Spry Mosaic?!  And MS being an early adopter of DE could signal that their own .Net development is far behind schedule.

As long as DE and .Net remain two distinct products, and Amiga doesn't put too much faith in the partnership (if .Net should go down in flames at the hands of the courts, or from public distruct), I wish them luck.

Todd

[System]

Another one for the AMIGA boys!

[JetFireDX]

Not to look at this the wrong way but for hating MS so much you guys sure did a 180 with this announcement. I personally am going to remain skeptical. When has anybody ever seen MS get into a "partnership" and follow through on their end? I have to wonder if this isn't just like what they did to SEGA with the WinCE/DirectX technology and Dreamcast. Its scary I think, especially since what I have read about .NET is that its damn near identical to DE in what it is supposed to do. I know that a lot of things from MS are supposed to work one way but don't very well most of the time, but .NET isn't supposed to be even in beta until later this year right? So MS buddies up with TAO/Amiga for intent and DE and then when they have learned what they need they will incorporate it into .NET and dump TAO/Amiga. Even though this means good promotion for Amiga and possibly some needed cash, I think they are playing with fire. I wouldn't have an problems with this if MS wasn't already working on .NET. If they just adopted DE/intent right at the get go then it would be fine, they wouldn't be developing a competing product while using DE. Why then spend the money developing .NET if they really wanted to use DE...at some point they will switch.

[teo]

re: the old poll, its not a theory anymore, new poll time, and im looking forward to the results

teotwin

[Bobsonsirjonny]

JetFireDX,

Your sceptism is valid - but I think with all the flak that MS is getting at the moment from the courts, they dare not appear anti competative. Perhaps they will scrap .net in favour of AA? Amiga is a privatly run company. As far as I know MS couldn't mount a hostile takeover. Even if AA burns on windows, it should allow doors to open on other platforms, and give the Amiga platform back, the respect which it so deserves.

[DaveP]

IBM has a staf of over 300,000. The overwhelming majority of their products are built by their M+D labs for which I work.

They do not just sit back and rake it in. The business model you are referring to is a figment of your own imagination.

They market at businesses not at consumers in the main. Given that they make billions every year out of their software products, research et al, I think they are very successfull. I think what you are referring to is IGS ( IBM Global Services ) which is just one small part of IBM.

So yes, get your head out of your arse and go and look on IBMs site as to what they do.

Dave.