AJAX World - Who Will Win the Next Battle for the Desktop?
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| Introducing: "Desktop 2.0"
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| Instead a new crop of portable desktop platforms has arisen, which some have
| called Desktop 2.0. Examples of Desktop 2.0 technologies – at least the first
| entrants in this technology sector – include Google Desktop, Yahoo Widgets,
| Adobe AIR, Mozilla Prism, Google Gears, and Curl Nitro (note I’m employed by
| Curl). These platforms attempt to provide an execution and development
| environment that is largely indifferent to the idiosyncrasies, and therefore
| differentiators, found in desktop operating systems. Using Adobe AIR, Yahoo
| Widgets, or Curl Nitro, for example, developers can write applications that
| will look and feel exactly the same on all desktop operating systems.
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http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/548350_p.htm
Recent:
Enterprise Unix Roundup: Unix Heads for the Clouds
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| And if — if — cloud computing advances to the point where we do indeed use
| devices that connect to the cloud with virtually no on-board software,
| Microsoft will be shut out of that part of the cloud, too. Its embedded OS
| has not demonstrated a real market strength or scalability. But Linux has.
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| [...]
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| And out on the servers and mainframes that will be serving up this cloud
| goodness? Unix, BSD, Linux ... all secure, all ready to scale for any sized
| job.
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| Pretty scary ... for Microsoft.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3731186
Forget Facebook. The Web's platform is Firefox
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| That user experience is starting to evolve beyond today's browsing
| experience. The most interesting topic discussed in our meeting was just how
| compelling Mozilla's Firefox will increasingly be as the platform for much
| that happens on the Web. Forget Facebook, MySpace, the iPhone, and other
| so-called platforms. Firefox could well prove to be the most disruptive Web
| platform on the market. Here's why.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9893479-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Related:
Is Linux Worth the Effort?
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| I've spent the better part of the past 2 weeks banging away on 2 LTSP servers
| for our school district. I find myself lamenting to those around me, and
| being an otherwise cranky guy as well. This morning it dawned on me that
| people probably think I'm having such a hard time because I'm using Linux
| instead of the "norm" -- but that's just not the case.
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| Tomorrow morning, about 1200 people are going to log into thin clients strewn
| around the school district here in northern Michigan. I am using K12LTSP as
| my distribution, because the support is incredible, and it's designed for
| schools. The problem for me, however, is that Linux is so darn powerful, my
| users are overwhelmed by it.
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| [...]
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| Is it all worth it? Oh, heck yeah. Instead of managing 250 workstations, I'll
| be managing 2. I like that kind of math. There are still a couple hundred
| Macintosh computers, and handfuls of Windows PCs -- but I'd like not to think
| about those for a bit, and bask in my thin client glory.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005992
Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says
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| For example, a number of companies have moved back to Windows XP after
| deploying Vista, Crawford said, before quoting Scott Granneman, an author,
| entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, as
| saying, "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your
| Windows box, you just have to work on it."
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2168426,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
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