====================================================================== _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || A M I G A U P D A T E /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ || -News and Rumors- / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_|| (An Occasional e-mail KEEP THE MOMENTUM GOING || Newsmagazine) ====================================================================== AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 990901 C O L L A S A N D M C E W E N G O N E Editor's Thoughts and Introduction: If you spend much time on the Internet, you may not need this special short issue. For those who haven't heard, as of today several news sites such as ZDNet and CNET are reporting that Jim Collas has resigned as President of Amiga. Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Tom Schmidt has been promoted to take over. Here's a quote from the CNET story, written by Jim Davis: "Collas,former senior vice president of global products for Gateway, has left Amiga after less than nine months on the job, Gateway spokesperson Brad Shaw confirmed. He is being replaced by Tom Schmidt, who joined Amiga in April as its senior vice president and COO. Schmidt was formerly with AlliedSignal, a manufacturing and technology concern in the market for aerospace products and services and automotive products." Separately, other web sites indicate that Bill McEwen is out as Amiga's contact to the press and users. This change apparently happened Tuesday. It would seem we now know why the sudden change to quiet mode by Amiga. The only good news in all of this is the reports we've seen all indicate Amiga intends to continue with its existing plans. The question here is - how close are those plans to what we all think they are? We'll find out over time. "Amiga Update" will attempt to keep you informed about any other changes at Amiga as we go forward. At this point, there's no information available at Amiga's web site. URLs for the stories from ZDNet and CNET are: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,41208,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh.ni and http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2326207,00.html ?chkpt=hpqs014 Brad Webb, Editor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Amiga Update on the net: All back issues available at: http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html Stop by and check out our archive! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 1999 by Brad Webb. Freely distributable, if not modified. ====================================================================== _ __ _ <>_ __ _ A M I G A /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ A M I G A U P D A T E /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ U P D A T E / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_ amigaupdate@globaldialog.com ======================================================================