Virtual Desktop
As we are becoming more and more dependent on internet and staying connected 24 hrs a day to it has become so easy we are becoming less dependent on desktop based solutions. As we move along we would only be requiring a sophisticated hardware and an internet connection, virtually all the software would be somewhere in the world. What we are talking about is virtual desktop. The only problem area here would be that if we have a virtual desktop environment where would the data used by the application get stored? If that also resides in some remote location then the question of confidentiality and security at stake comes to picture. A better option would be to still have the data associated with the application locally and let the applications pick them up. But again when the application is loaded it picks up the data locally and has to process it remote which means it still has a hold on the data and the confidentiality is at a stake. So there needs to be some kind of a trust policy and security established in the application that is there in the remote. Anyway virtual desktop will evolve and could be a big talk down the line. One example of virtual desktop that is already available is the eyeOS and Ummu helps you create an environment for you using eyeOS.
S.Sankara Subramanian Said,
September 27, 2006 @ 1:01 pm
Good One !
Have you checked www.zoho.com yet ? Its one of the earliest web2.0 office suite that makes the need for proprietary office software obsolete
Its an online equivalent of a word,excel,PPT
Hope to see you blog on that
Sankar
Ramesh Said,
September 27, 2006 @ 4:32 pm
Hi Sankar,
Thanks for your comments. Yes I have seen Zoho, its again one of that kind. We will see more of such products down the line.
Ramesh
S.Sankara Subramanian Said,
September 28, 2006 @ 11:28 am
Now that the blog-dom is full of ppl(like michael arrington, ismail pasha, …….you-name-it
) writing about these Microsoft alternative products( like Google Writely , Zoho suite,.. ), would like to see your point of view as well.
As one following the industry up-close how do you see these attempts countering Microsoft…..
Ramesh Said,
September 28, 2006 @ 5:45 pm
Hi Sankar,
I think Microsoft is a good complementor to all these. In fact without Microsoft we would not be here with so much happeing on the open source world. Taking it positively Microsoft is always needed to run the healthy competition. Microsoft is too good in their marketing and branding area, they can easily win hearts given that still a large percentage of PC users run Microsoft Windows. Microsoft would have already thought about their future plans, time will reveal it.