CompuServe Messages

"If you are ever in need of Amiga networking expertise, give me a call. For that matter, I'd be interested in just hearing about what you are up to anyway." Well Dale, I keep seeing your correspondence on this forum but don't really have too much idea exactly what you do or where your expertise lies, so if you could send me by private e-mail an outline as to your areas of expertise, and setting out the basis on which you normally work, then there could certainly be some synergy. I am not prepared to discuss my business in any detail on a public forum, but suffice to say that I am engaged in supplying full multimedia corporate information solutions that are delivered by satellite to hundreds or even thousands of locations simultaneously, and at very short notice. Our contracts are mainly with car manufacturers (where I have over 20 years experience), but also with oil companies, breweries and in tourism. Our smallest project involves 150 sites. The largest, 12,000 terminals in 800 sites. Two 6,000 site projects are also at an early discussion stage. All of our multimedia projects are carried out on Macs because the tools available are WAY ahead of anything available on an Amiga (with the notable exception of Scala/Infochannel which are excellent), and despite some of the ignorant comments I see on this forum, the Mac is a damn sight more stable and reliable than the Amiga. We use heavily modified Amigas solely as the basis for our receiver/player, with 8 high speed serial ports (all capable of receiving 256Kbps transmissions), CD-ROM jukebox, 500Mb-1Gb hard disks, SCSI, accelerators, integrated satellite receiver, integrated high speed modem, MPEG capability and much more. In other words by the time we've finished with it only about 10% of the product is an Amiga. If the Amiga isn't rescued, and soon, we may be forced to go 100% with PowerMacs. The only reason we haven't already done so is that Scala and Infochannel and their interesting MMOS backBone technology does not run on Macs – yet! Whilst we really don't want to have to spend a fortune creating an Authorware/Macromedia Director hybrid with infochannel-like communication capabilities, if we're forced to, then that's what we'll have to do. Infochannel with Scala's MMOS technology on Intel is the other option – but I fear it's still some months away. I hope that gives you a brief insight. If someone would now rescue the Amiga, life would be a lot simpler. Here's hoping. Robert Clay