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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: SnowBord on January 15, 2003, 07:10:21 PM

Title: Be Inc. sold to palm.. is Be no more?
Post by: SnowBord on January 15, 2003, 07:10:21 PM

heh,
just stumbled across be's website here (http://www.be.com). Not only is the site up for sale, but I noticed they've sold out to Palm.
And another funny note.. there's a link to a filed lawsuit in Q1 2002 against M$ to sue them for breaching the antitrust case (usual spiel about M$ making them go bust).

Another one bites the dust??

Title: Re: Be Inc. sold to palm.. is Be no more?
Post by: on January 15, 2003, 07:38:56 PM

I hate to be the one to bring this up, but this happened early 2002 if not sooner.  bebits.com can lead you to articles about it.

Title: Re: Be Inc. sold to palm.. is Be no more?
Post by: SnowBord on January 15, 2003, 08:07:34 PM

heh thought od get remarks like this.
just haven't followed many 'alternative' scenes recently..
 ;-)

Title: Re: Be Inc. sold to palm.. is Be no more?
Post by: amigamad on January 15, 2003, 09:02:09 PM

Yes thats right sold ages ago to  palm  they sold off all of be,s  software and hardware. some good be links beos news and downloads (http://crux.sourceforge.net/nuke/index.php)
beos max edition download (http://www.cybersolutions.gr/vasper.net/main.php) . :-)

Title: Re: Be Inc. sold to palm.. is Be no more?
Post by: AmigaMac on January 15, 2003, 09:36:18 PM

Further development of BeOS is still in the works... here is some websites that have info and such:

OpenBeOS (http://www.openbeos.org/)
YellowTab (http://www.yellowtab.com/)
BeUnited (http://www.beunited.org/)

News and such:

BeOS Journal (http://www.beosjournal.org/)
TotallyBe (http://www.totallybe.com/)
BeGroovy (http://news.begroovy.com/)

Downloads and such:

BeBits (http://www.bebits.com/)

Anyways those sites will lead you to other sites... the BeOS community is alive and well and software is still being updated and/or produced to this very day :-D

Title: Re: Be Inc. sold to palm.. is Be no more?
Post by: mbilla on January 15, 2003, 09:40:50 PM

Yep but that was early 2002 already.
There won't probably be any new BeOS from Be or Palm, there is OpenBeOS somewhere on the net!
It's even talked to port it to AMIGA :-)

What does Palm do with BeOS?
Well many of the great multimedia features of BeOS will be integrated into PALM OS 6.
As Sony is a major player for PALM development software it has already prototypes :-D