Hope they don't get stung…
This is old news, but we’ve been down, so shut up. Palm Purchases Be for $11 million (in stock). In the case that you don’t know who Be is, they’re the maker of a rather languid operating system called the BeOS. They made hardware for it in the early nineties as well, called the BeBox and it ran on PPC processors.. Apple passed them up for purchase and bought out NeXT instead, and the rest is history. Historically, the one thing BeOS can do pretty well is handle large/multiple mutimedia files with relative ease, which is why it was popular with video editing people for a short time. That, and its error messages are presented to you in haiku format if you wish. I’m not kidding. BeOS has always been an interest for me, and most geeks as well. It’s a kind of an interest/hate thing. You’re interested in it, but get frustrated when a. there are no apps for it (all you PC weenies can stop snickering right now) and b. you’d have to sometimes write your own device drivers. So that ain’t happening any time soon, but maybe Palm can use Be’s know-how and expertise in multi-threaded environments to develop a relatively new and interesting use for the PalmOS. But the first time I see an animated banner ad on a Palm, it’s going out the fucking window.