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Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup

was an American software company operating from 1999 to 2001 in Palo Alto[1] and then Mountain View, California.[2] The company's flagship product is the Nautilus file manager for the GNOME desktop environment on Linux, which was immediately adopted and maintained by the free software movement. As the core of Eazel's business model, it is an early example of cloud storage services in the form of personal file storage, transparently and portably stored on the Internet.

Staff consisted of former employees of many technology companies such as Apple, Netscape, Be Inc., Linuxcare, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Sun Microsystems. On March 13, 2001, Eazel simultaneously launched the first release of Nautilus (version 1.0), and laid off most of its 75 employees in an attempt to secure funding in its final few months. [17] GNOME has renamed Nautilus to Files and now refers to some of Eazel's early concept of "network user experience" as " cloud storage", which is provisioned by a variety of sources including the complimentary Google Drive.

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