IBM teams up with EyeOS to fight Google Chrome OS

Some people tag 2010 with the year of mobile, but the last couple of years have also seen a tremendous improvement in cloud computing and cloud based apps. While cloud based apps have been well received and appreciated with google docs, zoho, mobileme, opengoo, fedena, quick schools among many others. Software as a service has really taken a boom and google plans to leverage the cloud to the next step with its google chrome operating system. Google launched the prototype a couple of months ago sending a note – cloud operating systems might be the future.

Cloud works on the Past

EyeOS Cloud Operating System

While cloud operating systems seems like an idea of the future, google was not the first to bring into reality. Eyeos was the first operating system and they have been working on the cloud for well over three years. The operating system is very simple to install [requires only php5 and apache] and you can use all basic applications like notepad, office docs, games, explorer and a few others. Eyeos is open source software and is free to use. Other notable projects include icloud and GOS.

Google Chrome OS Project

When google launched its own cloud based operating system, more light was shed on the idea of cloud operating system and now there is more competition. Software giants Big blue is all set into the game and is said to be working on cloud based operating system project. IBM has also shown expertise in cloud based applications with LotusLive Cloud based suite and also spiced it up with inotes, which has raised some interesting insights too.

IBM teams up with EyeOS

IBM Teams up with EyeOs

Last week, IBM joined hands with EyeOs and announced plans of incorporating eyeOs in all Z machines. System Z machines are primarily used by large enterprises and this stands as a big market for the cloud based operating system. This eventually places EyeOs in a successful state and promises a lot of potential market and also revenue though IBM.

Will you use an operating system out of a browser? Does it offer full power? How can cloud applications become better?

Trivia: All 25 of the 25 leading banks in the world use IBM Mainframes for some kind of processing.