I just found this online:
Pano's solution to the unnecessary desktop software is a 100% hardware client that has no CPU, no memory, no operating system, and no software, so it requires zero maintenance and has no security risks. Combined with server-based virtualization, Pano delivers a superior Windows experience.
You might think that since there is basically nothing new that anybody needs from WinXP that it ought to be fairly easy to slim it down, virtualize it and make some custom hardware to run it faster. In fact, a lot of people thought of that before, several years ago with blade computing. Keep a monitor and a keyboard and mouse in front of you and keep your actual PC hardware back in the raised floor. It's basically the same idea, minus the virtualization, and it was a good idea back then. It's even a better idea now.
Stewie and I had a cranky agreement about the corporate fetish for the thin client. We both agree that we took a lot of smart C and C++ programmers and told them they were inferior to HTML newbs. Back in 2000, I was suffering the entire madness of software development being presented through environments as kludgy as Cold Fusion. Sure the web is exciting, but not that exciting. Besides, very few enterprises scaled up anyway. Extranets, yeah. Then again, that was throwing away the smart C and C++ (And Delphi) programmers, and the industry was cursed yet again.
Now we have dime a dozen general purpose hardware breaking its neck for one application. The browser. What could be more retarded? And for this we need dual core? Give us a break Mr. Dell. The time is now to go virtual.
It seems to me that these guys at Pano have a pretty great idea, and it's not just because I'm more and more in favor of the Cloud.
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