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i did my best work on beos before i worked at be, unfortunately. this is what got me hired:

http://www.platinumball.net/pineapple/news/beos/

be had their "focus shift" shortly before i started. after that, they were no longer pushing beos as a standalone product. they repurposed it as an os for embedded devices. the whole company was working on the ill-fated sony evilla when i got there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_eVilla

it was pretty obvious to me and most of my fellow employees i talked to that this product was not going to be a success. it wasn't.

be went out of business seven months after i got there and i was laid off. would have been a good experience if i'd jumped on the bandwagon two or three years earlier, i bet.



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