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As each "new" thing happens, that only throws more confusion into the
situation. Additionally, as time passes by the value of the assets decrease.
At some time, if not already, things will have gone too far to make a relaunch
of the Amiga practicable.
Personally, I see the layoffs of the engineers as a smokescreen to hide
behind. Engineers aren't ball players. They weren't buying them, and if the
deal "was about to be completed", I'm sure that the engineers who would have
liked to continue with the Amiga, could have been persuaded to sign up with the
new company.
After all, they would likely have to take a couple of weeks to find a new job
anyway. Or, if _EITHER_ bidder were well financed, the amount of money
necessary to put the remaining few engineers on retainer till the deal was
done, is peanuts compared to the money that will be spent to relaunch the
machine.
In other words, if they can't afford to carry the engineers for a couple of
weeks, they can't afford to relaunch the machine, or they are on such a tight
budget that we are looking at another C= shoestring type operation.
My hopes for a new Amiga, which weren't incredibly high, have sunk even lower.
– Alex… Still Whap!'n after all these years…
Alex,
Commodore doesn't exist…so it can't very well keep paying the
engineers. As to a buyout company putting up the money to keep the engineers
on the payroll….the reason they don't do that is manyfold:
1. The continual delays.
2. Which buyout company should pay?
3. CEI was talking 100 engineers…I don't know their salary, but let's
put it in the $50/yr category just for numbers. That's about $1,000 per week
per engineer. Times 100, means $100,000 per week just to keep them on the
payroll. Not real smart considering the buyout has taken over 6 months now…or
would have translated into $1.3 million dollars to keep those engineers
around….and not knowing who was going to be the winner.
4. Etc.
Don
p.s. I agree though…as time goes by, it gets harder and harder to put the
pieces back together.
BTW, 6 months at 100K per week is 2.6 million not 1.3.
It was funny to see your message because I'd done the EXACT same math myself
recently.
The idea of bringing in 100 engineers either way is an extremely lofty goal.
Then there's the developer support staff, the marketing staff, the sales staff,
the service staff, the manufacturing staff, the legal staff, the finance staff,
etc., etc.
Maybe one good thing will come out of this, and that is people will become a
little more aware of just how incredibly expensive it is to run a computer
company and that people are far and away the most expensive part. Maybe people
will agree more at my guess of a minimum of $100M to really get Amiga going
again. Kinda reminds me of the OJ trial – taking forever, a pretty sordid
affair all in all, costing a fortune, but maybe the public is learning
something…
Paul,
Righto…2.6 Million it is.
Don
Yeah, the public is learning where all those tax dollars go … down the
drain 🙁 I say let the guy go, and build a new highway, or repair a few.
DJ
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