Break their silence 16th May 1997, London: Gateway 2000 have commited themselves to supporting development of the Amiga as a computer platform. The announcement came at a press conference on the eve of London’s World of Amiga show in Hammersmith. Among the changes, Amiga Technologies is now to be named Amiga International - a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gateway 2000, Inc. Unsurprisingly, Amiga International didn’t have details of new machines, or future directions for the operating system, because the company was only about two weeks old at the time. The only concrete development plan is for a new version of Workbench before the end of the year. However, Gateway reiterated the fact that they were committed to bringing the Amiga back to the forefront of computing and proposed a three step plan to achieve this: 1. Support the existing Amiga community. 2. License the Amiga technology. 3. Develop newT standards for home computing and video. Yoffvegotafnmdin thebusinessT® The second step is seen as one of the most important for the continued success of the .Amiga as a platform and also as a set of open standards. Jim Taylor, Gateway’s Senior Vice President for Global Marketing stated: “We believe that Amiga can be one of the most important computer companies in the world." A visibly cheerful Petro Tvschtschenko then J welcomed all the attendees to the press conference and explained that .Amiga International would continue to be based in Germany, but a sales office would be opened in London. He also stated that .Amiga International w as looking for a Research and Development manager but said that R&D would not be conducted in-house, or at least not to start with.This means that a wider range of developers can be ‘employed’ to set new standards, and develop Workbench further.
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