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AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga Technologies, GmbH
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970303
T R A N S L A T I O N O F A T S T A T E M E N T
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction;
Our readers came through like champions. We received two
translations today of the statement by AT President Petro
Tyschtschenko which we ran in yesterday's issue. As promised, we are
sending out this special mini-issue containing an English version.
Warm "Amiga Update" thanks are due to Erich Keser and Dan Staerk for
their assistance. They allow us to present the following which is
more complete than the only other translation we've seen so far.
One clarification is needed. It looks to us as if the official date
of the statement is actually February 21, not March 2 as we originally
thought.
Brad Webb,
Editor
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E N G L I S H V E R S I O N O F S T A T E M E N T
STATEMENT OF PETRO TYSCHTSCHENKO, PRESIDENT OF AMIGA
TECHNOLOGIES
BENSHEIM, February 21, 1997
Dear Amiga user community
It's been a long time since there has been any news on our Homepage.
Nothing seems to have happened since october, but this is not entirely
the case.
First of all, I want to thank you for the numerous e-mails directed to
me. Of course I also had to take some criticism for my long silence,
but mostly I received encouraging support. I offer you my heartfelt
thanks for this.
It is truly a wonderful feeling to know that one can still count on
the Amiga user community.
What has happaened in the meantime?
For the time being, VIScorp is officially out of the race. There are
still persistent rumours of Vcorp interest in the Amiga, but no
concrete indications.
Thankfully, I have been able to convince the bankruptcy trustee not to
liquidate the Amiga for the present. We have been able to continue
doing business since the July 15th declaration of bakruptcy as if this
had never taken place. Our distribution network has even widened:
there is now a new Amiga-Distributor in Russia and one has also come
forward in Malaysia. Price levels for our products are similar to
pre-bankruptcy ones. We are able to maintain ourselves with our
volume, and this is quite an accomplishment, given the circumstances.
A big thank you to all AMIGA-Freaks who have, through their purchase
of our products, helped our company to continue.
Since the departure of VIScorp, an array of interesting Amiga
acquisition proposals have been submitted to the bankruptcy trustee.
He has still not committed himself, but in my judgement of the
situation, there will soon be a decision.
There are companies involved in the bidding process which want to
continue the Amiga, and have the means to secure its future.
Naturally, there are also companies who only seek parts of the Amiga
yechnology. In the end, it will be up to the bankruptcy trustee to
make the decision. He will be guided only by the maximum value that
can be realized for the total Amiga property. There are exciting
weeks to come.
At present, our company is being maintened by only three co-workers:
Axel Krämer and Andreas Steep in Braunschweig and myself. I have
moved in the meantime and made my home in the one time ESCOM AG
building. From there, I try to, as well as possible, to keep the
AMIGA alive. You are welcome to obtain further details about other
co-workers from the Webpage.
As soon as there is a decision on whom the future Amiga owner shall
be, I will forward further details to you.
See you soon,
Yours,
Petro Tyschtschenko
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