BeOS is in a state of identity Limbo. Each user has their hopes set on a certain project to pull them through and into the future, but until the winner emerges and in many cases picks a name BeOS has a somewhat confusing future identity. This has little relevance to a functional and flourishing OS platform of the future. It must be stable and feature-rich for developers to bring applications to before a name is truly relevant, unless you are trying to "pre-release promote" a retail product.

So as things stand I think it is time we stepped back and looked at the contenders in a straight forward and honest manner. We cannot say who will emerge the winner nor can we say there will be a clear winner in the race to move the BeOS community into the future but we can take an intelligent look at the pro's and con's of the projects as they stand.