Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 30th Apr 2005 08:48 UTC
Bernd Korz, yellowTAB's CEO, was over here tonight and we had a little talk about the progress of the yellowTAB business and the upcoming Zeta 1.0 (screenshots included).
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It's amazing to see how transformed yellowTab are (company and public perception wise) compared to this period 6 months ago. Previously they were perceived as a 4 person company on a very limited budget, some even considered them hustlers and thought yellowTab had no access to the BeOS source and that all they were doing was binary hacks/patches. Today they have new offices, many more employees (35 - wow), and are beginning to show signs of quality and maturity. It's amazing how fast yellowTab reached this phase, usually it takes 5-10 years for a company to learn how to stand on it's own two feet.
Here's something OS enthusiasts should consider - Haiku have 35 employees working for them. Most OS distros (other than the top 4 - Microsoft, Apple, Redhat and Suse) appear to be run by 3-4 people max. Lets face it - for a quality release, you need a good leadership team, and enough man power to polish and make a solid release (with acceptable quality). Other than the 4 mentioned vendors, all OS distros feel like a patchwork done by a few enthusiasts from their study/bedroom/basement. yellowTab seem to be positioning themselves as the number 5 OS vendor. Sweet.
HW OpenGL is coming, Java is coming, Haiku is coming. All in all, good things await the ex-BeOS community.