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The IBM purchase of ROLM gives new meaning to the term "twisted pair". -- Howard Anderson, "Yankee Group"
Re:So, its another BeOS?? (Score:3)
Not even... BeOS is much more advanced in the multimedia aspects, and is fairly close to the 'realtime' definition as used in the context of QNX RtP.
My advice: learn the lesson that Be didn't - open source your OS if you want to survive.
1. As if Be is dead? BeIA will be doing nicely in 2001.
2. As if open sourcing BeOS would have made more money for Be?
Regardless of whether it makes "strategic" sense for the company
Regardless? Regardless?? A company's goal is to make money. Period, end of story.
Without developer mindshare, you're toast.
No, without a killer app, you're toast. Whether or not you need developer mindshare to get that killer app is another thing.
-thomas
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."