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[News] Op-Ed: Computers Gradually Turn to Remote Application Hosts (OS Irrelevant)

  • Subject: [News] Op-Ed: Computers Gradually Turn to Remote Application Hosts (OS Irrelevant)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:18:34 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
AJAX World - Who Will Win the Next Battle for the Desktop?

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| Introducing: "Desktop 2.0"
| 
| 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.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| 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.  
| 
| 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.    
| 
| 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.     
| 
| [...]
| 
| 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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