Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 3rd Oct 2002 22:12 UTC
It is always an honour to interview people who have 'served' and worked on operating systems at the "golden" times of the operating systems, the '80s and pre-Win9x days. Today we interview Adam de Boor, who was the CTO at GeoWorks, developers of the GEOS, in the begining of the last decade. Adam today works for OpenWave Systems. We discuss about GeoWorks, its past, its future, where it should have been.
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It was sad that Geoworks didnt get the market share it deserved, and I agree marketting was the biggest flaw. I contacted the company at the time, re developing some Geoworks addons, and found that it cost $1000 for the tools and also you had to forward a resume to be approved. We eventually gave up and adopted Windows. It would have been nice to offer our app and Geoworks bundled.
PS ... 40 hour day is where you work 40 hours straight and then sleep, however you could also have a 40 hour actual day on another planet, personally I like mars ... but the 25 hour day there would be a little short.