As a founding officer of BeOpen.com, I can tell you that BeOpen.com did indeed go out of business in November 2000, like many dotcoms, due to insufficient revenues. (People liked much of what we had but didn't want to pay enough to maintain the fairly expensive staff overhead.) The BeOpen.com web site is broken because there is no one to maintain it.
However, all the open source technologies released from BeOpen.com are still available, if somewhat hard to find:
Certainly in today's economy, there is a great need to broaden the set of people who know the ins and outs of entrepreneuring, how to raise venture capital, how to staff teams rapidly, how to weather business down turns, etc.
We're going to launch a series of articles within the next 30 days discussing such issues specifically as they relate to Open Source businesses. The articles will appear at www.BeOpen.com. We will tap the expertise of our own staff, business advisors and VCs whom we know but we'd welcome other contributors, as the possible topics are quite broad.
If you're an experienced entrepreneur, angel, lawyer or active VC familiar with software and Internet businesses and you'd be interested in writing or editing an article in this area, you can e-mail me. Let me know your background and the areas you are most interested in discussing.
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As a founding officer of BeOpen.com, I can tell you that BeOpen.com did indeed go out of business in November 2000, like many dotcoms, due to insufficient revenues. (People liked much of what we had but didn't want to pay enough to maintain the fairly expensive staff overhead.) The BeOpen.com web site is broken because there is no one to maintain it.
However, all the open source technologies released from BeOpen.com are still available, if somewhat hard to find:
Python 2.0 - www.python.org
InfoDock - www.sourceforge.net/projects/infodock
OO-Browser - www.sourceforge.net/projects/oo-browser
Hyperbole - www.sourceforge.net/project/hyperbole
Regards,
Bob Weiner
Certainly in today's economy, there is a great
need to broaden the set of people who know the
ins and outs of entrepreneuring, how to raise
venture capital, how to staff teams rapidly,
how to weather business down turns, etc.
We're going to launch a series of articles within the next 30 days discussing such issues specifically as they relate to Open Source businesses. The articles will appear at www.BeOpen.com. We will tap the expertise of our own staff, business advisors and VCs whom we know but we'd welcome other contributors, as the possible topics are quite broad.
If you're an experienced entrepreneur, angel, lawyer or active VC familiar with software and Internet businesses and you'd be interested in writing or editing an article in this area, you can e-mail me. Let me know your background and the areas you are most interested in discussing.
Regards,
Bob