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Simplifying things somewhat, desktop computing is to cloud computing
what silver oxide film was to digital photography. As was the case with
digital photography until high megapixel cameras became affordable, the
only thing holding back cloud computing until now has been lack of
Internet bandwidth. The advent of cheap and fast broadband has largely
solved that problem.
And what of the new generation of cloud computing providers other than
Google? Aside from major rivals like Yahoo! and increasingly Amazon,
smaller new players are springing up all over the place. There are SaaS
companies playing in the office productivity space such as Zoho and
Think Free. There are companies that aim to simulate the Windows
desktop such as Desktop Two. However, none of the smaller companies
have the infrastructure or clout of Google or its larger rivals. Uptime
guarantees and scalability are issues which present significant
barriers to entry.
The desktop is previous generation technology and therefore doesn't sit
well with the current generation of Web applications. After 14 years of
Internet, interfacing the desktop with the Web is still clumsy because
the Web makes the desktop redundant. The fact is, with many if not most
users, the desktop is really just a habit. Businesses are still using
it, teachers are still teaching it and students are still studying it
but as computing becomes ever more portable and Internet connectivity
ever more ubiquitous the desktop will eventually disappear behind a
cloud.
David Bass
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