Last Friday Stephen reported here that Magnussoft and the Zeta development team are parting, news that got out after a blog post by Bernd Korz, the Zeta team lead. Following the discussion this caused on the various websites and forums Magnussoft made an official statement in which they clarify the relation between them and Zeta at least a little bit.

After the demise of yellowTab last year Magnussoft started funding the Zeta team to ensure it’s continuation. At the same time they started working on games for the Zeta platform and later they adopted the Wonderbrush application. Because the sales figures of Zeta are not what they had expected them to be Magnussoft is no longer able to keep funding the development team. Apart from being the main investor in Zeta, Magnussoft was also the exclusive distributer, which they will remain at least until the end of 2007. Magnussoft states that they are still interested in the Zeta platform, and they intend to keep developing and distributing the software titles they carry for the platform. Also, they are looking for other investors.

Looking at the troublesome and short history of Zeta investors probably don’t queue in line to take over the funding of the team, and although I hope not this might mean that the Zeta project is coming to an end. I don’t know the exact number of people that are currently working for Bernd, and I’m sure that they are very committed, but they won’t work without being payed, neither would I.

Read the statement from Magnussoft on zeta-os.

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