'The Big Switch': Welcome to the Worldwide Computer
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| According to Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch and former executive
| editor of the Harvard Business Review, the revolution that's coming is based
| on the idea that the Internet, a network of computers, is becoming a gigantic
| computer itself. Not only will users be able to write programs to run on
| this "World Wide Computer," as Carr calls it, but sooner or later, this
| system will gain a level of artificial intelligence.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/reviews/61905.html?welcome=1204497442
Also the opinion of one of the executives at Sun.
Yesterday:
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
Related:
Xcerion's Internet Cloud Forms Over Google and Microsoft
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| If successful, it may be able to further erode the power Microsoft
| derives from control of the desktop, to beat Google at its
| software-as-a-service play, and to make commodity Linux boxes more
| viable as a computing platform for the masses.
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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=R2FGBWGYKLN5OQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=197700815&queryText=xml
http://tinyurl.com/ynkp9q
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