The Jim Collas rumor, truth or rumor? I say rumor.

[redrumloa]

P.S. Did you ever get the information I sent you on the ROMs you needed?

No I never heard back from you :-?

[takemehomegrandma]

lempkee wrote:
it says in total amiga (Buzz word section)

and i quote:

Buzz word has heard that Amiga are about to get a new CEO but it won't be Garry Hare; Apparently the whole Genesi / garry hare story was a setup designed to produce confusion.

Nobody needs to *produce* confusion when it comes to Amiga Inc. Garry Hare exists (even Fleecy admitted that after a while), he gave out business cards that said he was the CEO of Amiga Inc. We have seen scans of these.

My guess is that Garry Hare was put there by the bigger shareholder (NOT McBill&Fleecy - the one with the money) to clean up the mess/damage control. That is - a temporary CEO with a mission to find a more durable solution.

If he has succeded in that, then it's great. I wonder who it is, if it's true?

the new CEO is a man who will bring many millions of investments dollars back into the company.

quote END.

Great! Then perhaps Amiga Inc and their new investor can start paying off all their debts!  :-P

[downix]

Ya know, I read this rumor and went "this doesn't help them one bit, as McEwan and Fleecy essentially ran the show with Collas there anyways, so no difference."

[amigamad]

Things under Gateway's Amiga at least SEEMED to be moving forward which is much more than can be seen or demonstrated currently.

you mean the empty case they showed at shows .at least we now have some hardware that works and an os that might get released sometime. :-?

[Billsey]

I remember Jim Collas as a man who, when Gateway suddenly abandoned the community, jumped the Gateway ship. I only ever had one very brief conversation with him, but if it turns out to be true that he is taking over, I would not run for the exits because I think things would soon get exciting again (in a positive way :-) ).

[z5]

Things under Gateway's Amiga at least SEEMED to be moving forward which is much more than can be seen or demonstrated currently.

What a strange reasoning. Actually, i never witnessed anything Gateway ever made? Maybe i have missed something? Quite a difference in regard to what we have seen from OS4.

Hyperion and Eyetech have done more than Gateway, Escom and all together. They have done something for real.

[Atheist]

I think Jim Collas actually fought for reviving Amiga. That's the way I remember it, anyway.

IF he's coming back, IF he can bring in some finances, well, that's what's missing right now. Then they could make a bigger batch of boards = lower cost per board = more boards sold = :-D :-D :-D

AmigaOne! AOS4.0: Release the potential !!!

[DaveP]

Jim Collas himself. I still have a lot of respect for him and a high opinion of him both as a person, and as a businessman.

http://www.merlancia.us

[amigamad]

Hyperion and Eyetech have done more than Gateway, Escom and all together. They have done something for real.

But escom got shops interested in reselling amiga1200,s quite a while after they had sold out and almost forgot about it. :-)

[KennyR]

But escom got shops interested in reselling amiga1200,s quite a while after they had sold out and almost forgot about it

The only problem with that was they were selling A1200s that were next to useless by that time - unless, of course, you spent a fortune upgrading them. The Amiga Surfer pack was great - if you liked watching web pages take 4 minutes to load on a flickery interlace screen on a very dodgy version of Voyager.

[Billsey]

DaveP:

Where does http://www.merlancia.us mention Jim Collas? I'd go through the site myself if it didn't remind me so much of the "people's court" kind of attitude.

[lempkee]

billsey: i think davep aimed below the belt with that one , merlancia now owns the MCC design , the computer that was supposed to have arrived in 98/99/2000 , jim collas worked on that thingy.

anyway what ever, i think u guys should put down your weapons and rather see the positive sides as if he can do what he is supposed to, well then hell i know there will be alot more smiling in here ...well it should anyway...

[lempkee]

takemehomegrandma: , ermm did u see that i QUOTED ? , sounded like you didnt anyway ...

i just wrote what total amiga issue 15 on page 8 said , to relive some of the tension in here.

also , garry hare never was ceo, he was just planned to be , i guess thats why jim is in the seat now..

but then again it might be fud all of this, but i only wrote what i did ..because i saw that in the magazine (AND quoted)

cheers

[redrumloa]

@lempkee

Actually that is the wrong Merlancia:-P

The link he provided is for the famous 'Merlancia Slam Page', which also happens to slam Amiga Inc nowadays.

[chris]

I have the greatest respect for Jim Collas.  Under difficult circumstances he managed to get Gateway interested in actually doing something with the Amiga name and technology they had acquired.  He was enthusiastic and managed to get a lot of PR interest generated for the Amiga MCC.  It always appeared that he was fighting Gateway to stop them turning his pet project into something else, and occasionally it would show through that Gateway got their way, as little pieces of Amiganess slowly disappeared, shortly followed by Collas himself.

Don't forget that he was responsible for OS3.5, and although it was contracted out, it was a nice gesture towards "Classic" Amiga owners and perhaps somewhat ironically ended up being the only Amiga-related product they released.

I doubt the rumours are true, but if they turn out to be, I for one will be very happy with the news.  I can't see him keeping a low profile, so the truth will not take long to come out.

Chris

[takemehomegrandma]

lempkee wrote:
takemehomegrandma: , ermm did u see that i QUOTED ? , sounded like you didnt anyway ...

i just wrote what total amiga issue 15 on page 8 said , to relive some of the tension in here.

Yes, I know you were quoting. My answer was not directed to you in specific, but to "the quote". Sorry for the confusion, and thank you for the interesting quote! :-)

also , garry hare never was ceo, he was just planned to be , i guess thats why jim is in the seat now..

:-o :-o :-o :-o :-o

So this is confirmed now?!??

but then again it might be fud all of this, but i only wrote what i did ..because i saw that in the magazine (AND quoted)

Well, technically not FUD, since it's not directed *against* someone/something. More a like false rumour (perhaps even a deliberate lie) ...
;-)