# 50 Years In Tech. Part 16: From One Ice Floe To The Next

<https://mondaynote.com/50-years-in-tech-part-16-from-one-ice-floe-to-the-next-3813b95ac579>

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## What Jamie wrote

[Jean-Louis Gassée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gassée) has been writing some very fun retrospectives of his time in tech. If you remember [BeOS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS) and the [BeBox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox) this is a fun read. I also found this little inside baseball look at [NeXTSTEP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP) and Apple's acquisition of NeXT fun.

> Later, I learned another version of the story from a NeXT and Apple insider. By 1996, Jobs had given up on NeXTSTEP and had focused the company on WebObjects, a set of tools and building blocks aimed at the design and implementation of high-performance, feature-rich websites. But the noise from the Apple-Be conversations attracted the attention of Avie Tevanian, VP of software at NeXT, who urged Jobs to dust off NeXTSTEP and whip up a demo. The master persuader convinced Gil Amelio to pay the price Apple didn’t want to pay for Be: $429M for NeXT.

It’s unlikely Apple acquiring BeOS would have been transformational, but maybe. The leadership behind NeXTSTEP was very transformational for Apple.

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- [WT94: Weekly Thing #94 / Feb 23, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/94/), Notable Links 📌

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