Be Buyout...

[MacRumors]

It seems life has gone full circle. When Apple was shopping for a new OS, Be was everyone's favorite choice... well, everyone except Apple.

Be's been in some financial difficulty, as well as a change in their focus (to an appliance OS)... Now, The Register reports that Be has found itself a buyer:

Be's close relationship with Sony, the product of much speculation over the last six months or so, makes the Japanese giant a leading candidate for the post of Be buyer, but other IT and consumer electronics companies can't be ruled out.


It may be interesting where Be settles...

 

[menoinjun]

dreaming...

Let's hope that Sony starts putting BeOS on their computers and starts to get software makers to jump on the Be bandwagon. To hell with microsoft. BeOS is cool anyhow.

I know that this is not going to happen, but for a while Sony did put Corel's StarOffice on their PCs instead of Microsoft Office. StarOffice is very powerful, can save/open/edit office files, and is FREE!!!! If I still ran a PC, I would run Staroffice completely. I use this example to prove that Sony does go out on limbs sometimes, and I hope that they continue with BeOS.

-pete

 

[McDuck]

Be futuristic!!

I learnt about be when I first read Jim Carlton's book, and fell in love with the OS. I was very disappointed when I found my old 6116 NuBus was too old and my G3 Blueberry was too new. OS X is cool, but to be honest, was not my first choice. I see the OS X is moving towards Next with the moveability of the Dock, and think that that is great. But my G3 is a 450, with two ata 33 drives and 512 of RAM. If Sony puts Be on a Viao, I will think really hard before I by a Quicksilver.

 

[1011100]

Star Office

Star Office is from Sun. Not Corel

 

[menoinjun]

my bad...sorry

 

[imaginereno]

Your bad what?

 

[Guest]

Palm buys Be's IP

I believe I read somewhere that Palm is in the process of buying Be's intellectual property.