Microsoft has been promoting AmigaDE software for use with WindowsCE .NET based devices at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco. The AmigaDE is a binary identical layer/OS which supports almost any embedded operating system currently available, including embedded Linux, PalmOS, Epoc, VxWorks, iTRON and QNX RtP. The promotion of WindowsCE .NET AmigaDE usage confirms the widespread support and adoption of the AmigaDE/ Intent platform. Thousands of developers are working with Amiga Inc on content for new AmigaOS based desktops, laptops or other AmigaDE enabled devices including PDAs, STBs, Internet Appliances, Mobile Phones and Digital TVs.
Maybe I’m just paranoid.
when I first heard about .NET, I thought that it sounded a exactly like what Amiga, Inc. was doing with their AmigaDE and Tao Intent.
Now I hear that MS and Amiga are cooperating. While I like the idea of Amiga Anywhere getting a major corporate boost, I almost wish that it was anyone but MS.
Has anyone ever heard of ‘Embrace and Extend’? Or maybe MS would buy Amiga, Inc.’s technology out of hand.
Microsoft has heard of Tao and Amiga’s work before, and they know that this could potentially destroy their operating system monopoly. So Microsoft developed .NET (to control the market, and weaken similar competitors), but .NET still is lacking many years behind as compared to the what the Amiga community (including the great guys at Tao) has in store. They know that an immense industry force will soon be pushing the AmigaDE/Inent. So if you can`t beat them, join them.
There is no better way of promoting the AmigaDE to WindowsCE developers other than to work together with Microsoft themselves.
FYI Tao Elate does not support QNX RTP (ie QNX 6).
What does the Amiga community have in store?
Do you know whats .NET actually? I mean besides the usual XML Web Service crap heard everywhere?
After I talked to QSSL’s CEO Dan Dodge at a meeting about the AmigaDE he got very interested and according to Fleecy he called Amiga Inc for a partnership soon afterwards. This is now over a year ago. Amiga Anywhere. Stay tuned!
> Do you know whats .NET actually? I mean besides the
> usual XML Web Service crap heard everywhere?
There was an <a href=”http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=686“>article about it here at OSNews a while ago.
> What does the Amiga community have in store?
Lots of multimedia and distributed computing related stuff currently under NDAs. Of course internet and wireless communication plays an important role in the near future as well.
I recommend watching this http://amiga.medicinareberget.studenthem.gu.se:8080/amiga/BillTechT… of Bill McEwen’s demonstration to understand the AmigaDE/Inent’s potential. (Here’s a <a href=”http://polarboing.com/div/BillTechTV.mpg“>mirror, soon to become available.)
> Inent
Excuse me for all those typos. Of course I meant “Intent”. I really need to get some sleep as this has been a very tiresome day for me.
These developers (though it’s unlikely there are really “thousands” of them, practically speaking) are the real key to Amiga Anywhere’s success. If the apps they produce are compelling, “must-have” solutions to people’s problems or otherwise really whiz bang programs, then the whole thing may fly. I haven’t actually seen anything of that quality yet, though I’d like to. I understand the need for NDAs, especially now that Amiga has caught the close attention of the most formidable idea thief on the planet.
But it’d be great if the application layer and the applications could become public in parallel. Until the apps, and I mean the “tractor apps” for the platform, appear, Amiga’s announcements are only PR blustering about the concept’s potential. Until the apps appear, we won’t know if they really will scale usefully from PDAs to STBs to desktops, which is one of the key features and reasons for the existence of AmigaDE/Anywhere.
Microsoft has heard of Tao and Amiga’s work before, and they know that this could potentially destroy their operating system monopoly.
<p>Hahahahahahaha! *slaps knee* That’s funny.
Does amiga really have the financial backing to do more than make this a niche item? And before anyone says with microsoft onboard they have it, remember ibm.
> Does amiga really have the financial backing to do more
> than make this a niche item?
Intent, the foundation of the AmigaDE technology is supported by well over 60 leading software and consumer electronics companies. Recently Mitsubishi Corporation, Bowman Capital, Sony, NEC and Sharp invested 21 million dollars into Tao.
Some intent users: http://www.ocpa.jp/ (see engrish section)
Amiga Anywhere demo: http://paula.guldheden.com/
https://www.ostdev.net/news/amiga_announcement.html
So they are getting some $ also from Nokia.
that techtv video looks promising for AmigaDE. Pretty amazing, actually.