Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 25, 2006 03:34 AM
The article doesn't mention the fact that the company, which proudly calls itself "the makes of ZETA" is bancrupt and closed.
In May, they laid off all employees, support phone lines were shut, and the insolvency administrator confirmed to the German-language news service Golem.de, that yellowTAB had ceased all business activies. <a href="http://www.golem.de/0605/45513.html" title="golem.de">http://www.golem.de/0605/45513.html</a golem.de>
Another German company, magnussoft from Dresden announced that they would help to forge a new development team, probably within Runesoft <a href="http://www.rune-soft.com/" title="rune-soft.com">http://www.rune-soft.com/</a rune-soft.com> a games producer which is a subsidiary of magnussoft. Furthermore, magnussoft set up a new web site, <a href="http://www.zeta-os.com/" title="zeta-os.com">http://www.zeta-os.com/</a zeta-os.com>
However, given the background of this company, which has absolutely no history of OS development, it would take a fair amount of optimism to think that they might succeed where yellowTAB failed.
Another example of why proprietary software is a problem.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 25, 2006 03:34 AMIn May, they laid off all employees, support phone lines were shut, and the insolvency administrator confirmed to the German-language news service Golem.de, that yellowTAB had ceased all business activies. <a href="http://www.golem.de/0605/45513.html" title="golem.de">http://www.golem.de/0605/45513.html</a golem.de>
Another German company, magnussoft from Dresden announced that they would help to forge a new development team, probably within Runesoft <a href="http://www.rune-soft.com/" title="rune-soft.com">http://www.rune-soft.com/</a rune-soft.com> a games producer which is a subsidiary of magnussoft. Furthermore, magnussoft set up a new web site, <a href="http://www.zeta-os.com/" title="zeta-os.com">http://www.zeta-os.com/</a zeta-os.com>
However, given the background of this company, which has absolutely no history of OS development, it would take a fair amount of optimism to think that they might succeed where yellowTAB failed.
Another example of why proprietary software is a problem.
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