BeoS turns 10
OS News has posted a story on the 10th birthday of BeOS. Be, the developer of the OS was started around 1991 by Jean-Louis Gassée and Steve Sakoman. Both came from Apple where Gassée served as marketing executive and Sakoman invented the Newton handheld. BeOS followed in 1994 and took almost five years until it was widely dicovered by media as a promising multimedia operating system.
In Spring of 2000, Be decided to cancel the development of BeOS and rather bet on BeIA - an operating system which targeted Internet appliances such as webpads. The risky bet failed, the company lost all its cash reserves within 18 months. The firm was acquired by Palm in on August 16, 2001. One week later, Palm announced that the brand Be and Beos would disappear.
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