@elwood
Hmm. To refresh my memory, I looked again at Mr. Hare's interview (well, it is only two mouseclicks away). He said:
Quote:
| One of the features that attracted us to the Amiga OS in the first place is that, by definition, it is cross-platform. Improvement in any one market should improve the others, including the desktop. If the same application played across all platforms and devices, so much the better. |
Hmm, "by definition, cross-platform". The mind reels at how many other operating systems fit this description so much better than AmigaOS does. Do you really think Mr. Hare was referring to classic Amiga and PPC when he said "cross-platform"? This is a pretty thin collection of platforms compared to other operating systems that are alive and well on a wide range of hardware, don't you think? Especially considering his statement about playing "across all platforms and devices," the image that comes to mind is something grander and more future-oriented than "it runs on old classic Amigas and AmigaOnes." Well, anyway, the validity of his statements lies in the results, which should become visible fairly soon, I would think, since they've been under way for over 14 months now.
Which reminds me, I'd like to add more questions to my list:
* Does KMOS have an engineering staff? How many engineers -- on staff or contracted -- are at work on KMOS's AmigaOS solution for the telecommunications market?
* Are missing functionalities in the public releases of AmigaOS, such as Java and a modern web client, being developed now, or will AmigaOS not need these for KMOS's target market?
* What are the specific objectives that telecommunication operators can't meet with current operating system options, which Mr. Hare referred to in the interview, and how is Amiga OS more capable of meeting those objectives?
OK, I'll stop there for now. The more a person reads the interview, the more these questions pop out.
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