Amigaworld.net News : Former Commodore UK Bosses David Pleasance and Colin Proudfoot Join FriendUP
posted by danwood on 3-Feb-2016 16:45:46 (5968 reads)
The two former joint managing directors of Commodore UK have joined the new Amiga-inspired FriendUP platform.
After first meeting the Friend team at Amiga 30 in Amsterdam, both have been very impressed with the project and agreed to join as senior managers in the company. Colin is now CFO, with David becoming Director of International Sales and Marketing.
David and Colin were once the favourites to purchase the entire Amiga technology, after the downfall of Commodore in 1994. 21 years later, this is the first time the pair have worked together since Commodore.
FriendUP is a next generation web application technology for connecting users and developers to resources in a unifying way. The first product is an open source application called the Friend Unifying Platform, and takes many design decisions and concepts from the Amiga OS.
David Pleasance and Colin Proudfoot have recorded an interview with Dan Wood on Youtube, to explain why they wanted to be involved.
FriendUP operates very similarly to the way JoliOS worked. In the way that you can access all your apps, storage and development tools through the web browser. So in theory you can really have an always available stack basically in parts FriendUP is a web based operating system with a client based OS also available except FriendUP uses heavily concepts from the Amiga. It looks very interesting but before I put my eggs in that kind of basket I will wait 5 years after they exit beta before I declare success. Web based OS concepts have been around for 20 years and they tend to not work very well and they tend to have low acceptance.
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