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Last year I posted selected extracts from an 1� page article in 
The Independent. I have found it back and copied it here. 
I can't post the complete article as I snail mailed it to somebody
who asked for it. 

> Subject: Hermann Hauser in the Independent
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.advocacy,argonet.acorn.misc
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 16:56:33 BST

> The Independent 28 Oct 1997 : NETWORK+

> On the front page a photograph of Hermann Hauser with the caption:

> Seed money from the Acorn man.
> Can Hermann Hauser make the Silicon Valley formula for success work
> in Britain? 

> Interview (by Ian Grayson)
> ---------
> The confessions of a serial entrepreneur

> It has been nearly two decades since Hermann Hauser started Acorn
> Computers, which gave us the the BBC Micro. Now, two dozen hi-tech
> adventures later, he is banking on the NetStation, a product that will
> bring Internet access to the mass market.

> [snip]
> The NetStation retails for UKP 299 and is aimed squarely at the vast
> majority of the UK population that does not own a personal computer.
>  It is the first device from startup company NetProducts, formed in
> August 1997. NetProducts is the 25th company established by Hauser
> and, if things go according to plan, will be one of the most
> succesful.

> [snip]
> He is best known in the UK as the creator of the BBC Micro .....
> [snip]

> As a way out of its financial woes, Acorn established a joint 
> venture with Apple Computer in 1987 to create Advanced RISC 
> Machines (ARM).
> [snip]

> .... "But the thing I am most proud of is the culture I've been
> able to create in the companies that I've started."
>  That culture boils down to an attitude to risk - facing up to
> the reality that sometimes projects will fail but you have to 
> keep pushing on regardless.
> [snip]

>  The new Amadeus fund has already attracted considerable interest.
> The Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates, last month comitted UKP 5m to
> the fund.
> [snip]

>  Hauser predicts that such devices will outsell PCs within five
> years...
> [snip]

>  Hauser is convinced that the PC, as it exists today, does not 
> have what it takes to become a true consumer device. As well as 
> being too expensive for most people, its complexity frightens 
> many away.
>  That said, Hauser predicts that PC will not die out, but rather
> be augmented by a range of other devices offering ease of use at
> much lower prices.
> [snip]

> ... to make sure his vision of an UK based Silicon Valley gets closer 
> by the day. "The dominance of the US is doomed," he says. He might 
> just be right.

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