By no means do I mean that eyeOS is the greatest example technology-wise, but the concept behind it; OS in a browser, is huge. It’s what Larry Ellison tried to do years ago. The ability to, no matter where you are have access to your “PC” so to speak.
Quote me on this, in 10 years, this is the sort of thing we will be working towards. The flexibility of it is incredible, and that’s what makes this, and the whole Web 2.0 revolution a big thing. It’s what Google is working towards with all of it’s Apps, and what it’s going to put out with it’s inevitable OS release. A cloud based OS.
Everything will be accesible anywhere, and will have the seamless ability to be shared. With some of our clients, we’ve already seen them migrate away from things like Sharepoint to Web 2.0 apps like Wrike, or Basecamp. Hell, we’ve seen a lot of them migrate to Google Apps, and do away with Office.
As far as bigger corporations, a migration like that would be more difficult, but I do see it happening with time and more devolopment to technology. The lines between thin clients and standard workstations are going to be blurred, big time.