Zeta

Tuesday, July 13. 2004

Today I woke up very early (4:30am). And what do you do when you wake up early? Watch TV. And what type of program is in the early morning? Right, TV shopping. Today, they sold an operating system called "Zeta". Well, what is Zeta? It is a BeOS successor developed by YellowTAB. The TV shopping show was really funny, because they praised Zeta as some kind of ultimate relief for all computer users, "so easy to use", "with so many applications", "you can play videos and music", blablabla. When one of the presentators explained that it contains "a complete development environment", and didn't even know how to pronounce "development", I knew that he has absolutely no clue what he's talking about.

But what I did find interesting was the drag'n'drop stuff they showed. They showed some spreadsheet application (they called it "excel table", of course there's no Excel port for Zeta), and dragged some picture into it. Then they set it transparent, and put it into the background. That was quite impressive. But still, I wouldn't buy it, as EUR 99,95 are pretty expensive for Zeta Release Candidate 3 (the CD they showed in the camera said "Zeta RC3").

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sorry, because we the beos community would be very glad if some good os developer would support us and provide us with the tools the've written - and especially if they write tools with beos user in mind. (that means: the app is pretty cool, it really rocks

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I joined the beos thing years ago - as a kid I was impressed by a BeOs demo I've seen on television - I guess that was around '93. And as I started to learn how to program I was looking for an interesting project - something that did already exist 1000 times and it should be handy for others too. So I decided to focus on any other platform than linux and windows, because there were far more than 1000 editors out there for linux and it seemed that this number doubled per day...

But the days of Be, Inc are over... GassÃ©e made this big mistake...he said no as Apple came and offered them $XXX millions so that they could really build their next generation os copland on beos instead of just dreaming about it...so it cames that Apple had do buy NeXT...

#1 thorsten stern (Homepage) on 2004-07-13 20:02 (Reply)

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