i was working at be in 2001, the makers of beos. i knew they were in a bit of hot water, because beos wasn't selling at all, and they'd switched to working on embedded devices. but the company had been in business for over 10 years at that point, so i figured they'd keep finding a way.

alas, be went out of business seven months after i started working there. largely due to the dot-com bust. investors were getting very conservative. also due to microsoft's oem agreements.