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Be Throws in the Towel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Very sad :( by niola · · 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