CompuServe Messages

Picking through, here's what people (mostly from conversations with CBM) have said… Perhaps 15 people have either been laid off, relocated to other departments, or resigned. This includes perhaps 8 of 9 Unix people, of whom at least 2 stayed on in other capacities. So actual layoff numbers aren't known, but are likely to be less than a dozen. Major figures who are gone include the AmigaDOS 2.0 manager (Andy Finkel), the VP of Marketing/Sales, and the Unix applications manager. We already know that the CIS support person (Dave Minnich) is gone. A _rumor_ is that the Amiga development people now report to the manager of PC products. It's said that most changes were due to "completion of projects". Work on Amiga Unix 2.0 is supposedly done, altho full ABI compliance will have to wait for 2.1, which is still being worked on. So what it sounds like to me, is simply that the Unix department has finished what they were supposed to do (and on time… their mistake :-), that perhaps AmigaOS 2.0 is done, and that a natural shift will take place towards other areas (my own gut feeling is that CDTV is taking some precedence). We'll have to wait and see, tho.