- Eazel
Eazel was a
software company based in Mountain View, California from1999 to2001 .Cite news | url = http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/03/14/0210224 | author = JT Smith | title = Nautilus 1.0 is out, you're all fired, have a nice day | publisher = NewsForge | date = 2001-03-14 | accessdate = 2007-09-26 ]The enterprise was staffed with former employees of
Apple Computer , Netscape,Be Inc. ,Linuxcare ,Microsoft ,Red Hat andSun Microsystems , among others.Mike Boich wasCEO ;Bud Tribble was VP ofEngineering ;Andy Hertzfeld was a principal designer andDarin Adler led development.Susan Kare , author of the originalMacintosh icons, was brought in to design newvector graphics -based iconography. [ [http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/about.html Nautilus File Manager ] ]Eazel's main achievement was the new
Nautilus file manager for theGNOME desktop environment. [ cite news | url = http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/08/22/hertzfeld_spills_all_about_eazel/ | title = Hertzfeld spills all about Eazel | author = Andrew Orlowski | authorlink = Andrew Orlowski | publisher = The Register | date = 2000-08-22 | accessdate = 2007-09-26 ] Its business plan involved monetizing online services to be offered through Nautilus such asstorage , but it failed to do so before venture capital ran out. On13 March 2001 , Eazel released Nautilus 1.0 and laid off most of its employees. It attempted to sell its core development group but went out of business in May2001 . The Nautilus file manager has continued to be updated by thefree and open source software community .See also
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