From:	DALLEMAGNE Philippe <philippe DOT dallemagne AT csem DOT ch>
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Message-ID:	<3DDB55A7.F16278FB@csem.ch>
Date:	Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:28:07 +0100
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Subject:	Re: NEW DEAL & DR DOS
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Robert W Moss wrote:
> 
> Also the old GEOSWORKS GUI program,  which was farmed out to
> NEWDEAL Inc and released as NEWDEAL 3.0, NEWDEAL OFFICE
> SUITE 20, 

Geoworks was the name of the company that designed and sold GEOS,
packages under the name "Ensemble".
They also sold GEOS to OEMs, like Canon (some starwriters), Brother
(some notebooks), Nokia (some high-end phones), HP (OmniGo 1x0), etc.
New Deal took over the Desktop business and sold diverse New Deal
versions, including an OEM one for their subsidiary GreenPC (NDO 2000).
They also had a cooperation agreement with GlobalPC.

> AND NEWDEAL OFFICE SUITE 2000, being produced by
> Breadbox Software:  www.breadbox.com.

NDO 2000 was produced by New Deal. Breadbox has taken the Desktop
business over New Deal. Their product is called Breadbox Ensemble (4.0
and more).

> They apparently don't have
> a dialer program built in but there are several which will work with it,
> and there are also several internet brousers that will work with it.
> The old link at www.newdeal.com is now being used by someone not
> involved with the software business.
> 
> The GEOSWORKS INC has gone out of busines and sold off parts of
> their company piece by piece due to huge debt servicing and low cash
> reserves.  I believe 1 December 2000 is supposed to be their last day
> of business.

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