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Amiga Update (2004-03-15)
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A M I G A A N D O S P A R T C O M P A N Y
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
Well, here's an interesting situation. We suspect that most of our
readers probably know about this already, but just in case, we're
sending out a short newsletter with the press release from Amiga, Inc.
announcing they are selling Amiga OS to a company named KMOS.
We know little about KMOS except Garry Hare is the person rumored to
be the new CEO of Amiga, Inc. some months back. Obviously he is not,
but he is now the head of the company which owns the OS.
What does this all mean? Why did it happen? Too early to tell. The
Amiga community of course is in a tizzy about this, and speculation is
running rampant already.
As we learn more, we'll pass it along.
In the meantime, your guess is as good as ours as to whether this is
positive or negative. I'm sure the intent was positive - time will
tell, as we've often said of Amiga news, what the real outcome will
be.
Brad Webb,
Editor
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A M I G A A N D O S P A R T C O M P A N Y
Ravensdale, WA - 3:00 pm Pacific Time, March 15, 2004 - Amiga, Inc.
announced today that it has sold the Amiga Operating System to KMOS,
Inc, allowing Amiga, Inc to focus on the growing mobile market.
On April 23, 2003 Amiga entered into an Agreement with Itec LLC,
later acquired by KMOS, Inc. for the transfer and sale of all of
Amiga's right, title, source code, and all versions, from the "Classic
Amiga Operating System" through AmigaOS 4.0 and all subsequent
versions to KMOS, Inc.
"The expanding mobile market offers Amiga over 200 million potential
customers that we need to focus on," said Bill McEwen - President/CEO
of Amiga, Inc. "We began looking for a company that could focus and
provide proper resources for the AmigaOS and the associated markets
and we found that with KMOS, Inc." McEwen Said.
"We welcome the acquisition of the AmigaOS intellectual property by
KMOS. Together with KMOS, Hyperion looks forward to exploring new
business opportunities for AmigaOS 4. I would like to reassure all our
customers that the acquisition by KMOS will not have any adverse
impact whatsoever on the release of the consumer version of AmigaOS
4.0 later this year." said Evert Carton, managing partner of Hyperion
Entertainment VOF.
KMOS, Inc. is acquiring and developing technology enabling the
company to participate in the worldwide communications market. Garry
Hare, KMOS' CEO, said "KMOS is very excited about the commercial
potential of this innovative operating system. At Amiga's insistence
to which we totally agreed, we will honor the terms of the November
2001, agreement with Amiga One Partners: Hyperion VOF and Eyetech
Group Ltd., an English Corporation, in their entirety. Mr. Hare
continues, "I should point out, that except as they relate to the
Amiga OS family of products, KMOS did not acquire the Amiga name,
intellectual property or its DE line of products. These assets remain
the property of Amiga Inc.".
About Amiga:
Amiga, Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of
multimedia technologies to the world. Its award-winning software has
been a mainstay for motion picture studios, government agencies, and
entertainment enthusiasts from around the world. Today Amiga continues
to lead the way in multimedia development by providing developers with
hardware-independent technologies for writing and porting applications
to a new hardware-agnostic, multimedia platform. AmigaDE and Amiga
Anywhere powered with intent from the Tao Group, enables applications
to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM,
StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K, and
Hitachi SH. It can run hosted on a wide variety of operating systems
including Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x, 2000, and XP. AmigaDE and
Anywhere applications can be purchased online at www.shopamiga.com.
Amiga is based in Ravensdale, Wash. For more information visit
www.amiga.com.
About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company,
founded in March of 1999. The company specializes in 3D graphics and
the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to
niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X).
Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D
graphics for companies such as Monolith (www.lith.com) and has
developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D
graphics to low power digital devices such as PDAs and STBs. Hyperion
is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native
incarnation of the groundbreaking OS introduced by Commodore in 1985.
About KMOS, Inc.
KMOS, Inc. a State of Delaware licensed corporation develops and
distributes enabling technology, software applications and specialty
content to the wired and wireless communication market.
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