The world of the operating system is coming quickly to a “who-cares” point. Server virtualization is allowing companies to run multiple services and servers on a single machine. Applications are more and more being written to be cross-platform and even Apple has joined a Windows benchmarking group.Linux? Micro-kernel? Windows? Apple? Does it matter as long as it can serve applications through HTTP?

What percentage of your day is spent online? I’m online 8 hours a day for work, then a couple hours a night for recreation and additional work. Using Java WebStart to run applications directly from vendor’s web sites, web sites containing all the application code, and even the biggest (and baddest) ERP vendors are going to web-browser client interfaces.

The last peice of software I bought? No clue. Why buy a peice of software for 100$ that I can only run from one computer and must maintain the upgrades myself? Sure, some things like video editing are best suited for the desktop market… or are they? More and more applications are being offered online as services to which you can subscribe - CRM, office collaboration, project management, word processing, spreadsheets, calendaring, games, etc.

What kind of processor do you have in your computer? 15 years ago that was an important question when talking about running software. Now, you’re virtually guaranteed that anything you’ve purchased recently will run Windows/Whatever equally as well. Now that the hardware has been comoditized the next step will be the controlling software. Windows/Linux/Whatever are all going to be reduced to the lowest common denominator… do you care what operating system my web site is running? Nor do I. My operating system is Mozilla Firefox.

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Date: Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 at 11:22 am | Category: Blog | RSS Feed: RSS 2.0 feed.
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