I haven’t ranted in a while but after installing the Chrome OS on my laptop I just had to rant. So here goes…..Its amazing how old school software vendors and their press minions can turn reality into fantasy. Stories with headlines like “Chrome OS no threat….” are nonsense. Applications and even whole operating systems running in the cloud are the future. Rich applications on the desktop are going the way of the dinosaur. Any and all cloud based applications are right this very moment direct threats to their desktop counterparts. Old school software vendor and their fan boys will continue to fight it out over next few years but tight budgets will logically lead organisations to the cloud. The desktop is dead…long live the cloud.
A fine description of Cloud Computing in Plain English can be found at the Commoncraft website http://commoncraft.com/cloud-computing-video
