Well, it does not seem good. Palm has said that it has no plans to continue developement for the Be Operating System(BeOS). I only hope they wise up and sell what Be, INC has already done. They could make a little of the money they spent in buying Be's IPs. Over a million copies of Personal Edition were downloaded. I bet that at least 1/4 of those will buy R6 if it had BONE and OpenGL...
Palm's stock is falling, even though the IDC said that Palm did the absolute best thing it could have done. SO why?? Why is Palm's stock falling?? Well, because the investors would like to see a return off the 'investment'. The Be Community is very large and very loyal. It would be in Palm's best interest to at least test the waters. Hire Be, INC to finish R6, or whatever, and then Palm should release it as the BeOS R6.
The BeOS is the best OS there is for the desktop. I just hope Palm sees this, and the hurt they will do to themeselves by not releasing a new version of BeOS...even if it is called BeOS Epitaph
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Who says there not?
I heard that Microsoft was preparing to shut-out Be, INC a few years ago.
They even mentioned them in their anti-trust trial!
They assiimilated Be's technology via reverse engineering.
Take a look at Windows XP, you will see that it is terribly similar to BeOS an many aspects
Well, it does not seem good. Palm has said that it has no plans to continue developement for the Be Operating System(BeOS). I only hope they wise up and sell what Be, INC has already done. They could make a little of the money they spent in buying Be's IPs. Over a million copies of Personal Edition were downloaded. I bet that at least 1/4 of those will buy R6 if it had BONE and OpenGL...
Palm's stock is falling, even though the IDC said that Palm did the absolute best thing it could have done. SO why?? Why is Palm's stock falling?? Well, because the investors would like to see a return off the 'investment'. The Be Community is very large and very loyal. It would be in Palm's best interest to at least test the waters. Hire Be, INC to finish R6, or whatever, and then Palm should release it as the BeOS R6.
The BeOS is the best OS there is for the desktop. I just hope Palm sees this, and the hurt they will do to themeselves by not releasing a new version of BeOS ...even if it is called BeOS Epitaph