Very interesting time in MacOS land when Be came around. I wrote an article for their developer magazine about sales & distribution. At the time, I was also involved in selling a different RAD tool and in talks with Be to port it to the BeOS. Had they agreed to terms, I think it would have changed things for them. It wasn't just that Apple didn't acquire them that they failed, it was to get momentum on commercial applications - for which there were few.
There were a few Mac OS focused vendors who were looking at Be as a possible platform (as they held their noses and ported to Windows), but I think many were still sensitive to declining revenues on the Mac platform and being stung by various initiatives that died horribly, like OpenDoc. Remember OpenDoc? Publish and subscribe? :-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina Reports: Best Reporting Solution for LiveCode _______________________________________________ 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
