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To: bhagavathi who wrote (98517)	2/8/2000 11:04:00 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 186894

RE: "It is a basic OS geared towards multimedia applications." Mula, your original post was comparing Win98 to Be's OS. My point was, Win98 doesn't target the PDA market. Different markets. Amy J edit: also, the less hardware which is supported, the faster the boot. redherring.com By Lawrence Aragon, Editor Redherring.com, July 21, 1999 In a market full of moonshots, Be (Nasdaq: BEOS), an Internet appliance software developer, went out with a sputter Tuesday. NOT TO BE With so many VCs and big-name companies pumping money into appliance ventures, why was Be's IPO so flat in such a hot market? The lukewarm reception says more about the company itself than the appliance space, says Michael Murphy, editor of the California Technology Stock Letter. "This is a statement by the market that establishing a new OS is a very tough game; plenty of people have broken their pick on this before," Mr. Murphy says. Worse still for Be, a host of high-profile companies with much deeper pockets are developing OSes for Internet appliances, including Microsoft, with Windows CE, and Sun, with Jini. Too many investors have a bad taste in their mouth from GeoWorks (Nasdaq: GWRX), which created the GEOS operating system for PDAs. The company, which went public in 1995, has never had a profitable quarter and its stock is trading at $2.50, giving it a paltry market cap of $44 million. "This is what people are afraid Be will fall into," Mr. Murphy says.