Be Inc.
Be Incorporated, founded in
1990 by
Jean-Louis Gassée and
Steve Sakoman, is a software company focusing on
building new
foundations for the next generation of digital content and
media design tools. With a team of industry-leading engineers and
business executives in the
United States,
Europe, and
Japan, the company is dedicated to removing the
limitations of existing computer
architectures and
delivering a new level of
price performance on both personal computers and
Internet appliances.
In
October 1995, Be introduced
BeOS at Agenda 96. The demo was done on multiprocessor hardware Be had specially developed, the BeBox. The first public developer release, BeOS for the BeBox, was distributed in April 1996. August 1996 brought the first demonstrations of BeOS for
Power Macintosh hardware, and in January 1997 Be discontinued the BeBox to
concentrate solely on BeOS.
On July 14th 1997 Be shipped the first public, commercial release of
BeOS for
PowerPC, BeOS Preview Release.
Preview Release 2 shipped later that year, in October 1997.
In March 1998, BeOS crossed the
processor chasm, with the shipment of BeOS Release 3, the first version of BeOS for
Intel Architecture processors, and Be's first cross-
platform software release. Later that year, in November
1998, Be introduced BeOS Release 4, the latest major release of the product, featuring the new
high-performance Media Kit among many other new
features.
Be Incorporated is based in
Menlo Park,
California and has European
headquarters in
Paris. Be currently has over 100 employees worldwide.
http://www.be.com