"As is the norm (for the most cases) with private software companies, yellowTAB before, and now Magnussoft, have been reserved in commenting what's coming down the road. We know Multi-User is coming and also that GCC4 is part of ZETA's future, but today we're going to bring you a small glimpse in what's coming for ZETA and its users."
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Member since:2005-12-31
True, Haiku R1 is to be released around October 2007.
The thing is that in Oct 2007:
Haiku (will) = BeOS 5.x
Zeta (will) = BeOS 6.x (or BeOS 7.x)(what BeOS would have been had it continued on).
Haiku will be behind Zeta & it'll take another 1-3 years before it catches up to Zeta.
Also keep in mind that any improvements Haiku makes, Zeta benefits too, because yT incorporates Haiku code into Zeta. (ie: So, Zeta could actually stay ahead of Haiku by using Haiku code & also having yT programmers do their own changes, fixes & improvements too).
Member since:2005-10-09
Something you are failing to keep in mind, Haiku has no "operating expenses" - at least none of the magnitude of paid developers. These companies are run by fools, all the secrecy and hidden agendas (ie. never discussing if they had source or not - that was stupid.)
With that kind of leadership, the money isn't going to be around to keep those devs paid, and when they walk - Zeta dies. It's happened once already, it got scooped up again (and the company seems the same as yT to me) - and it's likely to die again. Zeta isn't marketable right now, it's got a long way to go before it's in a position to be payware as an OS.
All the comments about Haiku not being done yet, etc - yes, that's true. It's also developed by people in their free time, and those people will likely continue working on Haiku as time passes. They aren't doing it for a paycheck.
You just wait, Magnussoft and Zeta are going to fizzle yet *again*, and it may or may not be picked back up the third time around. I'm truly tired of watching horribly run companies totally destroy something that once was/could have been great. That's why Haiku (imho of course) is the only possibility for BeOS to survive in one form or another.
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2005-10-02
Last half of 2007 should be the release date of Haiku R1. Probably around november (or was it september? Or october? I forgot).