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Title: TAO Group is no more?
Post by: Ilwrath on June 14, 2007, 11:44:27 AM
Apparently, TAO Group (Providers of Intent, and presumably the base framework for AmigaDE) has folded up shop.  

"According to sources, the Reading-based firm's IP portfolio was sold in a private auction last week to venture capitalists Cross Atlantic Capital Partners."

More from el Reg article. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/13/tao_group_administration/)
Title: Re: TAO Group is no more?
Post by: Matt_H on June 14, 2007, 08:13:13 PM
Amiga curse strikes again!
Title: Re: TAO Group is no more?
Post by: pjhutch on June 14, 2007, 10:43:53 PM
The company had some good ideas but they were never realized fully and the market either wasn't interested or too much competition esp PocketPC.
Title: Re: TAO Group is no more?
Post by: hooligan on June 15, 2007, 05:18:06 AM
@pjhutch

Actually its quite the opposite, they DIDNT have any ideas better than are on the market already, and thats why they went tits up.
Title: Re: TAO Group is no more?
Post by: joemango on June 15, 2007, 01:50:57 PM
I remember reading about Tao when they were developing TaOS, which was supposed to be an OS framework for arcade and gaming platforms.  It would theoretically allow any type of processor to be added to a system to improve performance.  Think x86 and PPC cards working in the same machine, as cooperative nodes in a system.  I still think someone should come up with an OS that will allow you to plug in a new CPU or GPU on a bus and have its functionality used transparently.
Title: Re: TAO Group is no more?
Post by: koaftder on June 16, 2007, 04:53:01 AM
haha!
Title: Re: TAO Group is no more?
Post by: Waccoon on June 16, 2007, 01:07:54 PM
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I remember reading about Tao when they were developing TaOS, which was supposed to be an OS framework for arcade and gaming platforms. It would theoretically allow any type of processor to be added to a system to improve performance.

Game machines will be the LAST systems on the planet to stress generic processing!

I think any independent platform is in trouble right now unless it runs on servers where interoperability  of code is not an option, but mandatory.  Like, Java server pages and that kind of stuff.  My brother-in-law was working on a very fast Java OS for cell phones called "SavaJe", and once the product was actually public, the company was promptly bought out, everybody got laid off, and the project was [presumably] buried.  He's now working for a new company in Boston that has nothing to do with cell phones.
Title: Re: TAO Group is no more?
Post by: amigagr on June 16, 2007, 01:29:18 PM
TAO Group is no more?

i wonder what offerd when ''it was''...
Title: Re: TAO Group is no more?
Post by: uncharted on June 16, 2007, 01:39:00 PM
@Waccoon

Oh yes, no-one uses Java on cell phones or any embedded devices for that matter.
Title: Re: TAO Group is no more?
Post by: bobamu on June 16, 2007, 03:14:11 PM
yay for working hard at making someone else rich

:(
Title: Re: TAO Group is no more?
Post by: Velcro_SP on June 16, 2007, 04:14:21 PM
Can Amiga Inc. still sell those games on their website? The Tao technology was licensed for those, correct?
Title: Re: TAO Group is no more?
Post by: Waccoon on June 17, 2007, 04:31:33 AM
@uncharted:

Sorry, but my mind simply cannot adapt to the concept that Amiga could be on cell phones, driving content-delivery apps.  The Amiga always has been a PC, where the emphasis was on content creation.
Title: Re: TAO Group is no more?
Post by: uncharted on June 18, 2007, 10:47:52 PM
@Waccoon

What the hell does that have to do with what I posted?  I was talking about you statement about Java and platform independence, nothing to do with Amiga.