Three Reasons the Cloud Does Not Need Google&apos

Long promoted as the "cloud computing operating system," Google's forthcoming Chrome OS will provide a browser-centric OS that wholly depends on wireless connectivity and the cloud for its core services. The first Chrome OS notebooks won't be available until mid-2011 -- unless you can get into the pilot program for Google's own Cr-48 netbook. Every feature of Chrome OS is synced to the cloud, so users can pick up where they left off regardless of what computer they are leveraging.

If you're old enough to remember "network computing," this is it. Taking everything into account, never leave anything on your client, and use the network to access core application services and data storage. Fast-forward 15 years, and it's however the cloud and outside of the firewall, now the same rules for all that apply.

This article, "Three reasons the cloud does not need Google's Chrome OS," originally appeared at InfoWorld.com. Read more of David Linthicum's Cloud Computing blog and follow the latest developments in cloud computing at InfoWorld.com.

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