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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What enterprise customers? Not that I disagree with your logic, but I'm not aware of any "enterprise" customers who bought into Zeta. Any who did ought to go outside and shoot themselves in the foot a few times, just for good measure.
I've got no sympathy for anybody who used Zeta in an enterprise deployment, that's pure insanity.
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I would expect those using Tunetracker.com software will not need to change their OS until haiku is out. Actually I think it still runs well on old stock Beos sold at Purplus (As long as you get compatible hardware)
I would consider TuneTracker vertical enterprise software 
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That's got to suck for all the people who bought into Zeta.
They probably should've known better. Haiku might survive because it is a hobby OS for geeks, but as a business venture, Zeta never had a chance. If the most we can hope for is that a bunch of OSS apps get ported, it doesn't hold much appeal for anybody except those who want to gawk at 10 videos playing at the same time with no frame skipping
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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.