Not that the PlayBook deserves to die: It is essentially identical to the Kindle Fire in looks and in price tag, except that the PlayBook features volume buttons, a webcam and a slick, enterprise-ready operating system.
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is today emerging from stealth and introducing its new enterprise-ready cloud operating system for private clouds called pentOS.
"They can't get the infrastructure and the operating system ready in time," said Peter Misek, an analyst with Jefferies & Company.
It was clear that considerable effort had been put into making the operating system ready to function, on as many machines as possible, right away.
He went on to talk about the newly announced Catalyst 9000 (9K for short) portfolio of switches, which Cisco is calling the "premier enterprise switch in the world". The switch is highly programmable, IoT/mobile/cloud ready, includes a new operating system, and to top it all off, looks great designed by the same team that designs the Ferrari.
As Palm readies its next-generation operating system, which runs on more powerful chips, that trend can only continue.
Keep in mind, though, that a 3D-ready monitor/projector, GPU, and operating system like Vista or Win7 is also required.
Microsoft said yesterday that Vista, the much-delayed new version of its Windows operating system, was ready for its last and broadest round of testing.
Later this month, Intel will announce that its MeeGo operating system is ready to run devices including touch screen tablets and phones.
And the latter because it indicates that Microsoft thinks its new operating system is ready for everyone, even the most exacting corporate domains.
With help from the vast Linux network, Red Hat's first server operating system was ready by May 2002, having taken only six months to build; most firms would have required years to build one.
