
Bernd Korz has announced that he will
cease all development on Zeta [German], which effectively means Zeta will no longer be in development. Korz already wanted to quit development on Zeta when YellowTAB went belly up, but the numerous requests from customers to continue development eventually dragged him across the line. However, after the
spat with Magnussoft, enough is enough for Korz. He states that he is not sure if and when the service pack to Zeta 1.5 will be released. He also states that he is not sure if and when he will open source or give to Haiku his contributions to Zeta. He explicitely states nor yT, nor Magnussoft own the source code to his work.
My take: While I can understand Bernd, I am also sad to see this happen. For the little money and manpower Bernd had at his disposal, he did a magnificent job in making Zeta a usable operating system. I already knew this was about to happen, but a sad day it remains for Zeta users.
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2005-07-24
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That's got to suck for all the people who bought into Zeta.
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My thoughts exactly. What about all those enterprise customers who now have no upgrade path?
They'll have to migrate to Haiku, no doubt.
But large scale migrations are always full of unexpected difficulties.
This does, indeed, suck.