> It would have been used, too, except that Be thought they had > Apple over a barrel. > > OK, they kind of did, but for that barrel price, Apple > discovered that they could buy Jobs, err, NeXT . . . which > was for all intents and purposes, the end of Be.
They were pretty high on confidence, and to their credit, it was a very promising OS. Back in the day, I talked with Jean-Louis Gassée about porting a RAD tool (a different one) to build native apps for BeOS. It would have cost them very little, but they were extremely high on themselves and they wouldn't consider helping fund it. Since an OS lives and dies by the apps available for it, I can't help but wonder if he had said yes if it would have made a difference. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
