Oh come on. What about Sun "The network is the computer" Microsystems? What about Java, originally designed for a settop box, as described, way before 1995? Although I tend to credit Sun with the idea, the concept was in the air. There's even a book (fiction) about it, "The first 20 million is the hardest".
I guess Sun can't buy ad space in Wired anymore... Oracle can.
“What the world really wants,” Ellison told the crowd, “is to plug into a wall to get electronic power, and plug in to get data.”
With all the cheap netbooks and handhelds today, this is the end-point I see the world saturating to.
Well, apart from developers - who need good full-feature machines with apps and toolkits - the others would only need access to the internet. I see it something like "turn on the computer" vs "turn on the net".
Bulding an OS around a web browser, Chrome OS, I think is a step towards this goal.
[EDIT: Oh ya. Chrome OS has a mention at the end of the article]
”Mr. Larry is near Australia in his sailboat and can’t be reached,”
I believe that whatever hotshot CEO you are, you must always be accessible by your employee and be ready to discuss their problems (atleast if not your customer if you have a CS team).
That line wasn't about their response to Wired :) That was what his assistant told the Oracle's NC team when they wanted to discuss a problem about the machine with him.
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[ 7.9 ms ] story [ 30.0 ms ] threadI guess Sun can't buy ad space in Wired anymore... Oracle can.
BTW one page: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_oracle/all/1
With all the cheap netbooks and handhelds today, this is the end-point I see the world saturating to.
Well, apart from developers - who need good full-feature machines with apps and toolkits - the others would only need access to the internet. I see it something like "turn on the computer" vs "turn on the net".
Bulding an OS around a web browser, Chrome OS, I think is a step towards this goal.
[EDIT: Oh ya. Chrome OS has a mention at the end of the article]
”Mr. Larry is near Australia in his sailboat and can’t be reached,”
I believe that whatever hotshot CEO you are, you must always be accessible by your employee and be ready to discuss their problems (atleast if not your customer if you have a CS team).
P.S: You didn't read the article did you? ;)
If it was a technical problem, what are the odds that his input would have been helpful?
The "no downloads required" part is true. The rest... not so much.