# eyeOS. The epitome of Web 2.X and where technology is headed.

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**Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/eyeos-the-epitome-of-web-2-x-and-where-technology-is-headed/199391/10 "2008-09-04T11:17:04Z")

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> [@Callout: 540guy](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/callout-540guy/37687/13):
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> This might be the biggest buzz word post I have ever seen on this forum! 🙂 Cloud computing is nothing new, it is not something we will work towards either. It is simply an evolution of systems. The mainframe could be considered the first “cloud computing” environment. It rose and fell when user variables changed. In the 90’s they brought it back and called it grid computing. Same cycle… Its like a teeter totter. Server technology will be on top and we get clouds, users will increase demand and then the user will be on top and clouds disappear.
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> Nothing being stored on the computer is nice, but you run into new concerns. 1st being all your eggs are in one basket. If the server farm takes a hit, you are impacting all users. Security breaches are your worse nightmare, now everyones data is in a nice central location. You still have to worry about the transmit to the thin/thick client.
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> Like sonny said, this concept is nothing new. It has it’s PRO’s and definitely CON’s.

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.

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