NewsForge writer Joe Barr has an interesting piece on the Linux desktop today. I have written a bit about same in the past, and I'm getting the urge to write about it again.
From Joe's story, written from the Desktop Linux Summit 2006 in San Diego:
Michael Robertson, founder and ex-CEO of Linspire, has founded a new company called Ajax13, which has a product called ajaxOS. He echoed Moore's opinion that it is a mistake to challenge Microsoft on its home turf, the desktop. With ajaxOS, he intends to hit the company where it's not, and that's in the cloud.
The cloud, he explained, is an icon for the Internet. AjaxOS will eventually offer applications and data storage in the cloud. The only thing users will need is a browser. The platform the browser runs on won't matter.
Ajax13 is interesting, but may be a tad late. Google's already there: in fact, if you use Google, you use Linux, and you're using it on your desktop...
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