Phoenix Platform Consortium, the group founded to promote intercommunication and development amongst Amiga developers, is concentrating on a solution based upon a heavily Amiga-ised QNX Neutrino, the kernel which originally featured heavily in Amiga's early plans for AmigaOE. PowerPC looks set to be the main thrust of the hardware initiative, but is by no means limited to such an architecture. With significant big-names backing the initiative, including many of the original Amiga alumni, Phoenix is in some ways a natural successor to the Amiga.
http://www.owlnet.net/phoenix/
AROS, the scratch-built, multi-platform AmigaOS clone is achieving notable (but frequently ignored) gains on the development front, including a standalone version of the OS for IBM PC compatible hardware, and versions for Amiga PowerPC hardware. AROS is still short of manpower required to pursue their aims, yet are the most likely at present to produce an effective continuation of the AmigaOS line, including source-level compatibility and binary compatibility on non-680X0 machines once UAE support is merged into the system. A very worthy cause to be involved with.
AmigaOS 3.5 is doing well in terms of sales. The initial batch of about 6000 copies has sold out, and a second batch is due very soon. Haage & Partner need around 20000 copies to make a return on their investment with this, which should be a realisable goal considering there are approximately 100000 Amiga users out there and the fact that the sales have been good. Murmurings from the recent show in Cologne suggest that Amiga and Haage & Partner may well be on course to develop AmigaOS 3.5 further, with the goal of AmigaOS on IBM's Open PowerPC architecture. OS 3.5 updates are certainly on course, providing some much-needed good news from official quarters.
Now these are individually all fine projects, with practical aims and realisable goals. They may not share a common final product, but they do share common resources including developers, users and even retailers. The projects are forming links and communication between each other but progress is slow. Individually, each project is relatively small, but together with the right communication there's an extremely viable source of information, skills and even healthy support and competition. I'm not saying
