Zen and the Art of bye bye Microsoft’s domination of computing
Intel
Vanderpool and Silverdale
AMD
Pacifica
Microsoft
Scared
The people
Choice
Zen Freeware VMware with higher performance
The Xen virtual machine monitor
XenSource was founded by the creators of the Open Source Xen hypervisor
Grid Computing
Xeno
Net remote install
XenoBoot
Now we just need univeral SDSL or perhaps some wireless ISPs
Empires rise and fall:
Howard Hughes
John D Rockefeller
Currently:
Microsoft produces flakey desktop and server software
Google can cluster lots of cheap computers
Akamai has most widely used on-demand distributed computing platform, with more than 14,000 servers in 1,100 networks in 65+ countries, providing streaming and caching for major companies.
In the future:
Users may choose recreate the Internet for themselves with their own software at near zero cost or fund it by donationware
