This is an early example of Cloud Computing, an entire web based operating system. I’d guess that within 10 years most people will be accessing their OS and apps across the public web from similar systems and it seems to make sense for Enterprise and other large organisations to follow. Such an approach would undoubtedly make security easier to monitor, and ultimately, I believe, easier to manage. Infrastructure would also be much easier to manage with users requiring only a thin client with all the processing taking place on the server and with software and processing resources being served up on demand to a shared user base, upgrades taking place entirely on the server.

Sign up for an account at http://g.ho.st/ (but read the Terms and conditions first…)

see also DesktopTwo https://desktoptwo.com/

($1,295.00 USD) …so unfortunately I won’t be reading it but Joe McKendrick at the Fastforward Blog has…

A new report out of Saugatuck Research, for example, declares that “SaaS is now beyond the ‘tipping point .’” The firm’s latest survey of 250 IT executives shows that not only have more than 26 percent of companies installed at least one SaaS application, representing nearly 150 percent year-over-year growth, but resistance has plunged dramatically, in terms of firms that are not planning to deploy SaaS.”…

…Saugatuck calculates that on average, the typical large enterprise now taps into at least three SaaS applications, with one in seven having greater than 10 SaaS applications.”

Read Joe’s full blog entry here:
http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/03/software-as-a-service-passes-the-tipping-point/

The Report is available for purchase here:
http://www.saugatech.com/342order.htm