Start-up Xcerion sees the Web as your OS

Sun said back in teh mid-90s that "The Network is the Computer"

When I started in home heath most of the sytems were thin terminals and network computers.  As long as any OS runs the apps I want, it doesn't matter to me.  Having said that, I'm still using Windows instead of Apple OSs or any flavor of *nix for day-to-day use.

I'll lay bets that next year this company is gone.

There's been Online OS's for a while now...

I agree with Zubaz.

 

Zubaz, thomassen & Island Dog or anyone - Would there be any type of software/applications that you could see working via the Web?   

You would need an OS to run a web-based OS anyway so I don't really see a reason to do it.

Not really.  Most apps work better when the dat, the app, and the hardware resources are local.

Don't get me wrong, I think the web apps can extend outward what we do but for most folks, the question is, "What's the benefit?"

Web apps make sense for people who don't have PCs.  Give them to the folks on welfare or who are homeless or jobless.  Create apps that allow me to collaborate easily.

Other than that . . I'll use my app, my hard-drive, my memory to push bits around, thank you very much. 

Trust servers with my files?

Somehow I doubt any corporate would support web OS unless it's locally hosted, of course.

XX - Why would you save your files to the server? I'd save them to my own hard drive.   

I'm not sure that corporations would use the service, but I imagine there could be a number of individuals (home computer users) that just might find access to expensive apps a cost savings.   

OS offsite = file being processed offsite.

That's why.

XX - So your feeling is that any save function with an offsite OS or app will not allow you to save a file to your own hard drive? You maybe right but that doesn't make sense. If such a service were to come about think how much storage space would be required. They might provide limit back up capability. Atleast that's what I would do.   

Hmm I didn't say off-site STORAGE. I said file PROCESSING off-site. Get it straight.

Again . . what does on-line processing do for most people?

If we are talking WebOS, we are talking file storage, processing, backups, everything. No thanks.

If we are talking Web2.0 applications we are talking entering data (word processing, spreadsheets, photos, etc) on someone else's server, doing some editing, then saving back to my PC.

I'll tell you what; I have used Google Docs and spreadsheets for data that I wanted to collaborate with other people.  But for the most part I wrote and edited in my office suite then uploaded and pulled down when complete.  It's just not my thing.

I quess I read to much into your file being processed offsite statement. I read processed and automatically include storage. Just courious, what are the concern you have about the offsite processing?  Security of information would be one of mine.  

Indeed. That is my concern. Suppose someone used an online text editor to edit vital top secret source code? Hopefully none of my future co-workers/employees/whatever is dumb enough to do that.

I saw this article and thought it interesting in regards to this conversation:

Interesting read Zubaz. My intent for posting this link was to generate conversation.  

Like most issues (OS's for one) there seems to be strong opinions about this subject.  

Maybe not OSs but could Web based apps still find it's way into our computing future? This is where it would be great to have a time machine! Of course mankind would use it and screw the future up!!!!!!         

Interesting article. Thanks.