Untangling some strings …
… about the cloud, cloud OSes and open source code – this week Google opened up its Chromium OS, VirtualBox images and all and every good consultant is writing and talking about it.
It can boot in seconds (and should be run with solid-state hard drives) …
and is supposed to “live in the cloud“:
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
See, for now it’s Canonical who are doing engineering on a contract basis (via lockergnome) – partners in business model innovation and shaping the “future of computing” …
