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03.Feb.2000
AMIGA Executive Update von Bill McEwen
Bill McEwen meldet sich zu Wort (Übersetzung Executive Updates von Martina Jacobs bei AIDA, englisches Original):

"Greetings to one and all:

A great deal has occurred over the last couple of weeks, and it is only going to get more interesting as we move forward. It has been some time since I spoke with you, and I wanted to share some of the fun.

In the last two weeks we have announced our new foundation partner, started technical training with our new development team, and had many meetings with future technology partners

The responses have been overwhelmingly positive and, to quote an old song "they ain't seen nothing yet".

On January 8, 2000 at CES in Las Vegas we announced our partnership with the Tao-Group as our foundation OS partner. This is not just a technical but a strategic relationship and brings with it great rewards. I have asked Fleecy to write a short document highlighting the Amiga/Tao relationship from a more technical perspective, to save you from having to put up with my telling everyone how incredibly great and fantastic it is. We want you to make your own minds up.

In the next two weeks we will make another strategic partnership announcement with regards to the new path for Amiga. As with all our announcements, look at it against the whole picture and not in isolation.

After a week long trip to Germany and the UK I have come back with a much better understanding of what we can and cannot do. As mentioned before we are not going to make promises or product announcements. We will announce to you, the community, only after the deal is signed or the product is sitting before us. This won't put a stop to rumours, but it will make them all the more obvious. Change brings uncertainty, and in an information vacuum, mischief makers like to take the spotlight. If it isn't officially sanctioned by Amiga, don't believe it.

Our job as a company is to create exciting market opportunities for Amiga developers to take advantage of, and to give Amiga users a platform they can enjoy. This requires more than just an upgrade to the existing OS. This requires, indeed demands a complete strategy reaching into all areas of the present and the future. The time has come for all of us to move forwards, owner, developer, and user.

Many of you have sent us business proposals, and product marketing ideas, and for this we thank you, and ask for your patience as we look over them. Some are providing us with valuable insight into the desires of the Amiga community as a whole, others are providing us with a good chuckle. This is the Amiga advantage that other platforms just do not share.

Over the next few months there may be some companies that come out with their own plans, or state that we do not have the community at heart as we move forwards. The reality is, they do not know what we have planned. In order to stay focused and to keep up our incredible pace, we are not sharing our plans outside of our signed partnerships.

We have to prioritise and act singlemindedly if we are to reach our first plateau in our given timescales. Once there we will be able to pause for breath. Some are not happy about this, but they do not know the full plan. Our mission is not just about restoring the Amiga, but about pushing it forwards as THE technology for tomorrow.

This means that if you hear something annoying, or frustrating, or downright nasty, and the source is not Amiga Inc, then disregard it.

Plain and simple.

If you did not hear it from us, or read it here on this web site it is not true.

We are not asking for your trust or your undying belief. We only ask that you take us on OUR words and deeds, not on the misinterpretations of others.

We will soon be starting official meetings in Europe, the UK, and the US for developers and dealers. This will include introductory training seminars for the new OS, and introductions to the retail pricing and schedules. We will also begin the process of introducing the new web site, and putting the Amiga Advisory Council to work.

I want to thank each and every one of you for your hospitality during our meetings and for your continued support as we move forwards. We have had the chance to meet with many end users, developers, dealers, and new partners, and look forwards to meeting even more of you as time goes on.

There is a great deal of activity, with a lot of first footsteps on some truly amazing paths. New partners excited, old faces returning, familiar faces reminding us of our heritage. Indeed we are already having to move into bigger facilities, such is our rate of growth.

I know it can be frustrating but after years wandering lost in a dark place, the sun is finally starting to crack a smile on the horizon. Together, we will march into tomorrow.

Keeping the faith,

Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team." (ps)

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02.Okt.1999 Neue Bilder der Büros von Iwin
Martin Steinbach hatte uns diese Bilder am 10.09.1999 per eMail geschickt, aber zunächst darum gebeten, sie nicht zu veröffentlichen. Kurz zuvor war herausgekommen, daß die von Comcity geposteten Iwin-Büro-Bilder bei Merant aufgenommen worden waren, wo Martin Steinbach übrigens auch beschäftigt ist. Comcity hatte diese ersten Bilder ebenfalls von Martin Steinbach erhalten.

Diese ersten "Büro-Bilder von Iwin" wurden von Comcity inzwischen auf Wunsch von Martin Steinbach inzwischen wieder entfernt, aber auf der Sonderseite Iwin von Kleinbus.org (Update: oder auf amiga-news.de) sind die alten Bilder noch vorhanden. Auf der Sonderseite können Sie darüberhinaus auch die kompletten Ereignisse rund um Iwin als Zusammenfassung mit allen Details nachlesen.

Auf der heutigen "Pressekonferenz" hat Martin Steinbach uns nun die Erlaubnis erteilt, die neuen Bilder zu veröffentlichen, was wir natürlich gerne tun, aber wie Martin Steinbach in seiner eMail schon selbst richtig bemerkte: "Natürlich - ich weiß. Diese Fotos könnten natürlich auch von wo anders stammen."

Martin Steinbach

Rue Ann, Robert Jant, Greg Gahring (von hinten) und ein MA, der nicht mehr bei Iwin ist

Büro von Iwin

Rue Ann und ?

Rue Ann

Rue Ann (ps)

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09.Sep.1999

Iwin-News
Vorgestern war bei .AmiUpdate zu lesen, daß eine französische Zeitung über Iwin auf 6 Seiten berichtet.
Heute erreichten uns zwei eMails zum Thema Iwin.

Zum einen eine eMail von Bernd Rakel, einem Betatester von Iwin, der uns mitteilt, daß die ersten Teile bei ihm eingetroffen sind, der Rest aber noch beim Zoll festhängt.

Die zweite Mail ist von der Firma Computer City, die von Martin Steinbach Fotos der Iwin-Büros bekommen haben. Diese Fotos hat Computer City auf der Webseite unter http://www.compcity.nl/amiga/iwin.htm zur Verfügung gestellt.

Hier noch ein Link zum Thema: TheRegister: Commodore wannabe don't want to be Commodore no more

Ich denke, das sind alles nette Kleinigkeiten, die aber wenig geeignet sind, die Existenz von Iwin bzw. der Maschinen schlüssig nachzuweisen. Diese täglichen kleinen Bröckchen, die uns vorgeworfen werden, führen zu nichts. Ich warte ganz einfach ab, bis die ersten Computer zur Verfügung stehen, und sich jeder von der enthaltenen Technik, der Konfiguration und der Leistungsfähigkeit überzeugen kann (ps).

Nachtrag 10.09.1999:
Die Bilder der Iwinbüros sind heute von der Computer City Seite wieder entfernt worden. Wie sich herausstellte, waren es Bilder der Ismaninger Firma Merant. Weitere Ungereimtheiten hat Bernhard 'ZZA' Möllemann auf seiner Iwin-Sonderseite zusammengefaßt.

Nachtrag 12.01.2013:
Meldung um lokale Kopien der genannten Bilder ergänzt:

DSCF0031.jpg (640 x 480)	IMG_0013.JPG (640 x 480)
IMG_0015.jpg (640 x 480)	IMG_0016.jpg (480 x 640)
IMG_0017.JPG (480 x 640)	IMG_0019.jpg (640 x 480)
IMG_0020.JPG (640 x 480)	IMG_0021.jpg (640 x 480)

E-Mail von Bernd Rakel:

From:         Bernd Rakel
Reply-To:     Bernd.Rakel@bigfoot.de
To:           petra.struck@online-club.de
Date:         Thu, 09 Sep 1999 11:23:25 +0200
Subject:      Iwin

Hallo Petra

Da ich einer der Betatester von Iwin bin, teile ich dir hiermit
offiziell mit, daß die ersten Teile der von der Firma Iwin
angekündigten Materialien angekommen sind, und zwar zu 100% wie
angekündigt.

Erwarte noch in dieser Woche die restlichen Teile aus USA, sie sind
wohl schon beim Zoll eingegangen.

Dies habe ich bereits auch in d.c.s.a.m gepostet.

Bis denn ...

Mit freundlichem Gruss
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E-Mail von Ron van Herk

Reply-To:        "Computer City" info@compcity.nl
From:            "Computer City" info@compcity.nl
To:              petra.struck@online-club.de
Subject:         Iwin premises
Date:            Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:13:06 +0200

Dear Mrs. Struck,

Below is a link to some pictures we received from Martin Steinbach. They
were taken yesterday at the Iwin premises.

http://www.compcity.nl/amiga/iwin.htm

We doubted Iwin very much and at first we didn't mean to enter the
discussion. But now we have received more information from Mr. Steinbach and
customers even want to pre-order. Therefor we want to share our findings.
Since there has been a lively discussion on c.s.a.m. about Iwin being real
or not, I think most people would like to take a look at these.

Now a lot has been said about Iwin, and not many of it was positive. What I
wonder is how everyone would have reacted some years ago however, before all
the disappointments of promised Amigas that never appeared.

Of course, one could set up a hoax as big as this and go through all the
trouble and costs of making it believable. We tend to think this one is for
real, however.

If we are wrong we'll just have to compliment Iwin with obtaining such
believability. But if we're right the Iwin C-series might just be what a lot
of people are waiting for.

Yours,
Ron van Herk,
Computer City
info@compcity.nl

Unsere Antwort auf Ron van Herks Mail:

From:         Petra Struck
Reply-To:     petra.struck@online-club.de
To:           Computer City info@compcity.nl
Date:         Thu, 09 Sep 1999 17:58:07 +0200
Subject:      Re: Iwin premises

Computer City (info@compcity.nl)
wrote on: 09-Sep-99 at 11:13:06
subject:  Iwin premises

Dear Mr. van Herk,

thank you for sharing your information. However, pictures of some office
building, taken by Mr. Steinbach himself, are of little value as proof
for the credibility of Iwin. So far, Iwin presented webpages, claims,
mails, and photos that could have been taken anywhere around the world.
As long as there are no products available from Iwin, we will doubt
their credibitlity.

This doesn't mean we won't be excited to see Iwin's claims to come true.
It's just that they have been presented in such an unlikely manner that
we still are in doubt.

So far, we have not recieved positive confirmation about Iwin's credi-
bility from someone we trust. Until this happens, our position towards
Iwin will not change.

Best Regards
Petra Struck
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in deutsch:
danke, daß Sie Ihre Informationen geteilt haben. Allerdings sind Bilder
irgendeines Bürogebäudes, aufgenommen von Mr. Steinbach selbst, als
Beweis für die Glaubwürdigkeit von Iwin von geringem Wert. So lange es
keine verfügbaren Produkte von Iwin gibt, werden wir deren Glaubwürdig-
keit anzweifeln.

Das soll nicht heißen, daß wir nicht aufgeregt wären, sollten Iwins
Behauptungen Wahrheit werden. Es ist nur so, daß sie in derart
unwahrscheinlicher Weise präsentiert wurden, daß wir an ihnen zweifeln
müssen.

Bis jetzt haben wir keine Bestätigung von Iwin's Glaubwürdigkeit von
jemandem erhalten, dem wir vertrauen. Bis dies geschieht, wird sich
unsere Haltung gegenüber Iwin nicht ändern.

(ps)

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