Google OS????

[Brian Ellis]

I reiterate that if they want the corporate market, they must be independent of the Internet. Generally speaking, in industry, only management levels have Internet access. Lower levels (and this often includes secretarial levels) the users have only intranet access, not Internet. Not to mention that much machinery and test equipment, CAD workstations and suchlike are stand-alone. Furthermore, there is a reliability issue. Google, Microsoft and most others in the business, as well as ISPs have all been hit by DoS bugs at some time or other, and Internet nodes have been known to go down. If one computer becomes flaky in a corporate environment, it is not the end of the world. If a server becomes flaky, the remote back-up usually kicks in but if all the Corporate World packs up because a bulldozer has killed an optic fibre bundle leading to the remote OS server, then all hell will be let loose. No, OSs must be local to each computer, IMHO. Forget network OSs or similar.

[Marshmallowman]

Well Sun and googles are already set for a "java platform", the underlying operating system is immaterial in that case.

All the apps can be cached locally, and retrieved remotley. A corpoarte would probaly use a combination of internet and intranet servers distributiong java apps, and the same with the underlying data they are accessing.

It what sun has promoting for years

[VJ]

I reiterate that if they want the corporate market, they must be independent of the Internet. Generally speaking, in industry, only management levels have Internet access.

True, but many companies do use a system with an application server (i.e. Citrix) for their normal clients (not CAD stations, etc.). Ok, this doesn't require internet access, only local access; so any network OS system that is intended for corporate use should allow to work with a local server.

Reminds me: a friend of mine at a database company had to set up a database system with clients connected on a ... 9600 baud network
(they acutally wrote code to limit the amount of traffic: standard ODBC yields a lot of traffic)


Jörg

[Nowhere]

Brian, however Google already has something that requires only acces to intranet
Google Search Appliance
Google Mini
I don't see a reason why they would stop with only these 2 solutions...