After all, one good martini is always enough. The array of commercially available operating systems seems limited. And there are many computer scientists who refuse to stop exploring the possibilities. Proof of this is found at a Web site maintained by the University of Arizona . This site monitors many of the ongoing research projects in operating systems.
Most categories contain six or more ongoing efforts.
This is an amazing amount of activity considering how hard it must be to break into the narrowly focused mainstream market. Running through them I did not find anyone exploring the potential for Martini, but I did find some candidates with other catchy names, for example Tunes, Oberon, and Spin. BE OS is listed and, other than Linux, is the most familiar name of the lot. Over the years, I have acted as a beta tester for several of Microsoft's OS products. For the most part the experience was just fine and in some ways exciting.