>I thought that be died a miserable death due to the lack of sales on the >excellent hardware platform they were making. The beBOX was the best >computer EVER made and that was it's downfall... consumers and commercial >sales companies like things that crash and break. No, Be is still going strong -- well as strong as any alternative OS generally gets. They stopped making BeBoxen (which are, indeed, way cool ... I want blinky lights on all my computers!) primarily because multiprocessor PowerMacs started to become available from other vendors, so there wasn't much point in them losing money in the hardware business. A BeBox only running BeOS is a tough sell compared to a multiprocessor Mac or PC that can *also* run BeOS. Anyway, I love BeOS... it's very easy to develop for, and seems to mix together the best aspects of Unixes and more mainstream GUI OSes. The lack of a large software base is still a problem, though, as is the somewhat limited range of Intel hardware it runs on. - Edward Keyes
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