CompuServe Messages

further, why would a company bother with the Amiga, if it is perceived that the company has a tough time staying ahead technologically? The low percentage of R&D (currently stated by some to be about 4% of earnings, where the industry standard is 8% — in any case, I don't want to argue percentages with you, the fact is that R&D *IS* lower than the industry averages) combined with the few hardware and software announcements indicate to observers that not much of interest is going on. To break this perception, there are, I think, a couple of things Commodore can and should do: 1) Increase connectivity of the Amiga, through the Amiga side, to popular networking software. Novell has announced Portable Netware, which is available for porting to any multitasking environment for use as a server. It is written in 'C' and would seem an ideal vehicle for the Amiga. Have this software written for the Amiga, along with connectivity options for Amigas as workstations, to give the world the impression that Commodore works with "the big guys" to provide complete computing solutions with the Amiga. It would also give the world a bit of a shock to see an Amiga working as a server in a heavy duty computing environment. It would convince people of the power of the machine. 2) WB 1.4 – This is a very important release of the OS. Supposedly the whole look-and-feel is being changed, I would guess, to preclude any possible Apple lawsuits. Fine. It also supposedly includes many more tweaks to the OS to support additional HW. Also, Fine. What else it should include is support for new hardware concepts for the next generation Amigas. Like the secretive 3000. Sheesh! Why not have a few well-placed industry leaks. Like yes, the 3000 WILL use a 68030. Like, we are looking seriously at new 68040 technology, like…. (more to come)