From NYTimes: "In a post on its company blog, Google said the operating system would initially be aimed at netbooks, the compact, low-cost computers that have turned the PC world on its head. It said the open-source software, called Chrome OS, would be available in the second half of next year. Read more for a quick observation on the announcement.
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Member since:2007-09-06
Loss of data control may be the worse of the two though. I've said it before; centralized data and application (aka. Cloud or mainframe or thinclient...) makes some sense within the owning company. Relying on a third party company for your software and security is outright madness though.
Hm.. either accept extortion over access to your data or extortion over the tools to use your data. I'm not liking either option.
Search is probably the most acceptable Google service.
Email, well, encrypt it and use them for a transport only rather than browser accessed front end.
Apps, get a USB with OpenOffice and whatever other portable apps you like; including Thunderbird/Enigmail for the point about.
If your a business and just gotta have the latest novelty; go Citrix or in house hosted webapps. It may even allow you to drop that abhorrent clear text CIFS/SMB protocol.
I'm rambling.. I'd best move on to the rest of my morning reading while my sleep deprived mush slowly wakes up.
Member since:2005-08-07
Member since:2005-08-07
Why can't the business just set up internal web applications for their staff, and keep that data in-house... most modern companies already are moving towards web-based interfaces for management and the like, why not every day tasks as well?
I highly doubt Google will be forcing people to store everything on their servers, especially not if they are serious about competting with - and thus one day planning to exceed - Microsoft's market share.
I for one can't wait, finally a Linux based open source OS that isn't trying to copy what everyone else is doing as far as user interaction goes. If you look at some of the things Chrome is already capable of with its O3D and HTML5 stuff, I can certainly see myself switching the day it's made available.
Member since:2005-09-27
Why can't the business just set up internal web applications for their staff, and keep that data in-house
For the same reason they keep their money in the bank and not in their offices, let someone else take care of your problems is atractive, you only need to know who to trust.
Edited 2009-07-08 14:14 UTC
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2007-10-20
Worst situation of propietary software is that someone keeps your data away from your hands, at least from a bussines view. I think.