
Jolicloud, one of the outstanding projects in the field of cloud operating systems, has just released its new platform based on the engine Chrome. The new operating system already has a presence in more than 600 web applications, ready to solve everyday problems. Also the system is fast and support for HTML5. Of particular interest is the fact that transition from the old to the new Mozilla engine, in light of the fact that Google itself is going to soon release a Chrome OS for netbooks, with support from manufacturers of iron. Will the successful attempts to open source project Jolicloud niche and give the users an interesting alternative? Or is this OS will be another losing project in the race for supremacy in the cloud systems?
Jolicloud always been a company for which it was interesting to watch. Long before Google publicly announced its netbook-oriented operating system, Jolicloud been simulated and gave her a future in which computers run applications running on the Internet, but not in the local environment. Jolicloud OS promises to introduce a new concept to use a computer, and this concept – “clouds.”
With a very simple interface Jolicloud allows you to run a browser and use applications such as Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Skype, Boxee, Meebo, Dropbox, and hundreds of other applications. Unfortunately or not, exactly the same thing will do, and Google Chrome OS. And exactly unfortunately Jolicloud, Chrome OS will have the force behind the brand of Google.
So what’s left Jolicloud?
Benefit from the mistakes of Google
if something and could result in benefits for Jolicloud, that is, of course, the recent history of new service Buzz, after which Google had to apologize to users. Too much private information collected from all the user-specified resources, was available to anyone. Nothing, perhaps, not have happened if this setting is not enabled by default. Journalists who were covering the issue, were very unhappy, if not more, because their super-secret data have become available to any interested person, finding it difficult to use.
Despite this mistake, which will soon be forgotten, Google still has in stock a few services, which allow the user to maintain their privacy. For example, the company recently introduced a new method that allows Web surfers to abandon tracking through Google Analytics. Also service was launched on the Web boards at the end of last year in response to growing concerns MedlemsomrÃ¥de about how and what information is stored in a database Google. This service, involuntary manner reminiscent of how many aspects of your life affect Google, allows you to configure multiple accounts of different services. (If you have not looked at this simple page, look sure to: www.google.com / dashboard – open your eyes).
In the case of Jolicloud, these issues online privacy can play it only on the hand. Like Chrome OS, it also created based on the open source project that in the future will be a Googley web axis, but Jolicloud have an advantage in that … it … well, not Google, in general.
In this ambitious company has no problem great responsibility before the world, but because it can easily apply and embody interesting ideas in his brainchild. And in fact, Jolicloud may be the adapter in the region an easy and fun use of netbooks.
It should certainly mention that Jolicloud real success will depend not on those “feelings”, but on what the contract will be signed with the manufacturers of netbooks. Various rumors can walk, but no official announcement had not yet. In the end, only the users will decide better whether netbooks with Jolicloud, than Chrome OS, or not.
In the first of the company, however, there is another possible outcome – to be bought by Google. And we know that Google consumes only interesting projects.