Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 17th Apr 2008 21:53 UTC
Novell's Nat Friedman told InternetNews.com: "The basic concept here is that the standalone operating system is dead." Friedman is Novell's Chief Technology Officer. He added: "The days in which people buy operating systems on their own and then build a stack from there [...] will look like home-built automobiles in the future - people aren't going to do this anymore." This is not the first time some big company predicts the end of the traditional operating system.
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Think it is, as was said there has been a lot of this type of stuff said none lived up to it. I remember Gates saying we wouldn't need more than a certain amount of memory, 540k I think, and here we are with memory in the gigabytes.
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Think it is, as was said there has been a lot of this type of stuff said none lived up to it. I remember Gates saying we wouldn't need more than a certain amount of memory, 540k I think, and here we are with memory in the gigabytes.