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Hello and welcome to the show, this is bill mcewen from amiga, and I wanted to thank everyone personally for coming to the show this weekend. I hope that you have a great time, and that everyone will be able to share their experiences and their love for this amazing product we call amiga. I apologize that I was not able to be there in person with you as that was my original plan, but unfortunately I find that I had to be in another country in another location on the same weekend. So hopefully, I'll be able to be there for next year's show, and before that another visit to italy is definitely in the plans. I want to thank the OS 4 team and the folks at Hyperion, as we're looking forward to working with them and the launch of os4, the next generation of the Amiga operating system. We are very pleased and excited about this new product, and as they are aware we have numerous new customers who are interested in it as well. As mentioned in my 20 questions, back a couple of years ago, Amiga and then IBM began working together on their Artic reference platform which was a Power PC 405 embedded chip and what an exciting project that was. The Frieden brothers worked very hard and we actually had a working prototype on that project, only to have IBM turn around and sell their embedded chip division and slightly stall us. Well, while that happened, there is a team and a group of people in Italy who've developed a new piece of hardware based off of the next generation of that power pc chip, the power pc 440 and I have been very pleased in working with the Samantha team, and I know they'll be showing you this new product, and we're looking forward to getting OS4 on that platform and available as this will allow us to have new products, new hardware. In running with the PowerPC 440, it will enable new product types to be delivered in the portable area, in handhelds, in lightweights...it's really a great time to be part of Amiga. With this announcement, with Samantha, and I know they're going to show it to you, we also have another announcement with our other partner that I mentioned in the 20 questions and this is a high-end desktop product. There will be a prototype and more information available at the AmiWest show in sacremento california on the 23rd. We've been working with this group a little longer than we have than the Samantha team, and we are aware of it's capabilities and we are looking forward to sharing that with you as well. The bottom line for everybody is for the first time in many, many years, the Amiga community is going to have more than one type of hardware to select from, coming from different price points and variations of product type and we'll get OS4 out there, and make it for everybody to consume and enjoy. This isn't the only new beginning at Amiga. We have just closed our first acquisition of a company. We have just purchased a company in Puni, India. It was a 13 year old development firm with over twenty retail projects and packages primarily targeted at business and enterprise space but also very well known with their skillsets with embedded software, doing work with Ericsson and Noika, and numerous other companies, Ruxan development brings us a highly skilled set of developers, over 40 of them, and all these great products that will soon be brought in to the fold of the Amiga family. Effective immediately, you can go to
www.amigadevindia.com - that stands for Amiga Development India - take a look at the company, our new division over there, and just begin to imagine some of the capabilities this now offers us as a company. This is another great new beginning for Amiga as we expand our abilities and soon we'll be expanding our products. So as you enjoy your show, again, I'm sorry I'm not able to be there, but please know that we're excited about the new hardware that's coming out; we're excited about OS4 coming out, and we're excited about the extension of our Team and family. Amiga now has a presence in one of the fastest growing economies in the world, directly. So with physical offices in India and in the United States, as well as satellite offices in England, and other countries around the world, Amiga is beginning to spread again, bit by bit. So until I get to see you again soon, I wish you all the best and thank you so much for coming, and I thank you for your continued support of Amiga, and look forward to a bright future. Have a great show.
