TAO Group is no more?

[Ilwrath]

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.

[Matt_H]

Amiga curse strikes again!

[pjhutch]

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.

[hooligan]

@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.

[joemango]

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.

[koaftder]

haha!

[Waccoon]

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.

[amigagr]

TAO Group is no more?

i wonder what offerd when ''it was''...

[uncharted]

@Waccoon

Oh yes, no-one uses Java on cell phones or any embedded devices for that matter.

[bobamu]

yay for working hard at making someone else rich

[Velcro_SP]

Can Amiga Inc. still sell those games on their website? The Tao technology was licensed for those, correct?

[Waccoon]

@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.

[uncharted]

@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.