Be Throws in the Towel

darrad writes: "ZDNet is reporting that 'Be, the failed maker of a computer operating system once considered a rival to Microsoft's Windows, said Monday it would dissolve itself on March 15 and delist from the Nasdaq stock market.'" The Be front page says the same, and explains that this is the natural conclusion of the company's sale of most of its property to Palm.

Comments

Re:Be a rival to Microsoft's Windows?

[Our Man In Redmond]

As far as I can tell, they were a rival to Microsoft Windows in much the same way that I am a rival for the affections of Natalie Portman.

Yeah, but...

[bill_mcgonigle]

the towel is really a database and you can set user-defined attributes on the towel. The towel is also built from the ground-up to support SMP, has very low latency, and a well thought-through user interface.

(the sound of Be's second CPU being unchecked)

Farewell, Be

[Greyfox]

From now on, we'll only hear about you in "They're making a come-back" stories like the Amiga and OS/2 ones that make their rounds about every six months to a year.

To that end, I'd like to start the rumor now that Be, Amiga and IBM are teaming up to make AmBeOS/2, which will feature a telepathic user interface, 128 bit memory access, and an AI module that actually does your thinking for you.