Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 1st Nov 2001 02:06 UTC
Rocklyte Systems is a New Zealand-based software engineering company and creators of the Athene operating system and Pandora Engine. Athene is an object based operating system that is being developed for use in PC's and embedded systems. The user interface is completely rewriteable and is capable of emulating other interfaces such as the Windows and Amiga desktop environments (developing your own, custom desktop GUI is a matter of writting a script!). The Pandora Engine is an all-purpose object oriented SDK, aimed at assisting developers in all areas of the technology industry and it also the base of Athene. The engine is based on Modular Object Oriented technology, which allows you to create true object oriented programs using almost any language. Athene and Pandora are available for both Windows and Linux. Read more for an interview with Rocklyte's Paul Manias and two new screenshots, showing AtheneOS running under its newly released Windows version.
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This sounds like a nice way to deliver applications to users from within a hardware and OS-neutral environment. Given that, it sounds like they are trying to do a lot of the things that Sun originally set out to do with their Java platform. Any thoughts on how Athene/Pandora's approach compares to Sun's -- in particular, how this system will avoid the pitfalls that seem to have marginalized Java into just server-side-scripting and toy applets?