Coincidences are a funny thing. Last week I went to GoBe's website, just browsing, and last night I received an e-mail with the news. GoBe is back. It now has the support of a new company, investors and team, and it was launched in India, by Blue Lotus Software Solutions Pvt Ltd.

According to its CEO Venkat Kumar Tangirala, it is available for Windows only, but soon it'll be made available for MacOS X and Linux, via Java and they expect to sell "in about six months (...) at least a million copies". According to Mr. Tangirala, there's ongoing talks with ACI Asia and HCL Technologies for orders to be placed.

As for work force, engineers number 15 at the moment, though they are planning to increase them to 50, soon, all India-based I'm assuming, since it's where they're making their comeback in strenghth. A US launch is planned in 60 to 90 days.

This has come as a big surprise to me, as I'm sure it'll come to you, the reader, but the last part of the interview is even more... interesting, to say the least: "We are in discussions to acquire the BEOS and hope to close the deal soon". What to say to that... I'm trying to contact both Mr. Tangirala and Blue Lotus Software and Access, to see if I can get any more info about this whole thing. Will keep you posted so stay tuned. In the meantime, read the whole piece right here. Thanks Finn for the e-mail.

Update: I wrote ACCESS asking for a comment regarding these news, particularly the "acquire BeOS" bit, and this is what ACCESS's Director of Open Source Technologies, David "Lefty" Schlesinger, had to say: "I can categorically state that we are in no such discussions, with Blue Lotus Software, or with any other party, regarding the sale of BeOS or any related properties." That looks final to me, what do you guys and gals think? I tried to find any means of contacting Blue Lotus but without success. If I do manage to get in touch with them, as usual, I'll let you know.

Update 2: Thom over at OSNews received an e-mail sent by GoBE Software's CEO Bruce Q. Hammond. In it, among other things, he states that there is no plan to work on a Java version of GoBE. Read it all. More confusion added to the mix.