Amiga Update (1994-09-28)

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Date: 940928 
                        TELECONFERENCE WITH CEI 
 Last night was the eagerly awaited teleconference with Alex Amor, President 
of CEI, on the Portal system. CEI was one of Commodore's principle distributors 
and is a leading bidder for the Amiga line. The other leading bidder is  
Commodore UK. The teleconference did not answer the question "who's going to 
own the Amiga?" unfortunately. It DID turn up some interesting information. 
CEI, like Commodore UK, is bidding on the entire line and also past products, 
whatever that means. The earliest CEI could have more computers in the pipeline 
is February, 95. From personal inquiries we know that's too late to save many 
current Amiga dealers. They needed a good Christmas season to survive in most 
cases. It's too late for that. 
 The good news is that apparently both top bidders plan to keep the line  
intact and introduce new product. The complete line is currently seen as 
the A1200, A4000, A4000T and CD32.  
 We will have in our possesion an edited transcript of the conference shortly. 
It will be long, so if you want a copy, send e-mail to webb@malamute.med.ge.com 
and I'll see you receive one, rather than sending a copy to all on this list.  
 At times there were 50 people in the conference. Attendees included former  
Commodore engineers including Dave Haney, developer of the operating system, 
and long time engineer Andy Finkel. Journalists included Jay Gross, Editor of 
"AmiGadget", Tim Walsh of "AmigaWorld" and of course Royan and I representing 
"Jumpdisk". There were also many professionals who use the computers to make  
a living, as well as developers and dealers. As you might imagine, there were  
many good questions, most of which got meaningful answers. 
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                                   ||  Brad Webb - available at: 
     //  Commodore has fallen      ||  webb@malamute.med.ge.com 
   \X/   and it can't get up       ||  GEnie -- B.Webb 
                                   ||  Portal -- Jumpdisk 
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