Be Throws in the Towel

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 4, 2002 @09:55AM from the past-tense-of-be dept.

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.

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Geez... by JoeLinux · 2002-03-04 09:59 · Score: 0, Redundant

I was hoping for the lawsuit...oh well.

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You mean... by wrinkledshirt · 2002-03-04 10:00 · Score: 1, Redundant

...Be no longer Is?

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Be? by BrianGa · 2002-03-04 10:05 · Score: 0, Redundant

Considering the current state of the Be, they should probably change their name to Was.
Better headline... by Mike+Schiraldi · 2002-03-04 10:08 · Score: 1, Redundant

I would have titled this story, "To Be or not to Be?"

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yep. by drik00 · 2002-03-04 10:16 · Score: 0, Redundant

Could it BE about time?
They've been grasping for air for months...someone should have put them down a long time ago, just like a lame horse.
(I used BeOS once, it was OK, but no apps to do anything on it)

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I'll BE there for you. by red5 · 2002-03-04 10:24 · Score: 0, Redundant

Remind me of a sort of corny Brian Adums song:

"... When you breath I want to be the air for you.
I'll be there for you..."

Anybody know the full lyrics?

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Very sad :( by niola · 2002-03-04 11:12 · Score: 2, Redundant

This is indeed very sad news, but I think everyone saw the writing on the wall.

Since it was written as a media OS it handled sound and video recording much better than Windows.

Latency to video and audio hardware was often as much as 90% less than same hardware running Windows or even Linux and a lot of people that used proprietary recording software on BeOS would be the first to tell you how awesome this OS was.

RIP BeOS :(

--Jon