Seitdem Google vorgestern die Entwicklung eines eigenen Betriebssystems, genannt Chrome OS, bekannt gegeben hat, quillt die Blogosphäre vor Reaktionen gerade zu über. Auch an der Java- und Eclipse-Welt ist das Announcement nicht spurlos vorüber gegangen, unter anderem freut sich Doug Schaefer, Project Lead bei Eclipse CDT, über Chrome OS, glaubt aber nicht, dass Microsoft sich Sorgen machen muss:

Google wants you to spend all your time in a browser. Why? Because it changes the game. Commerce has move to the web in droves and Google wants to get you closer to that so it can get it's cut for getting you there. It's been a long time coming and the planets are finally aligning to make it happen.

Will this impact Windows? I don't think so. We're creatures of habit and Windows already has a good browser experience. Will this impact Linux desktop? Probably. At the least it could be a better place to go if all you want to do is get away from Microsoft, which, if you are Joe average consumer, would be the only reason you go to Linux. (Doug Schaefer)

Eine weitere Meinung hört man von Kent Beck, Mit-Begründer des Entwicklungsprozesses Ectreme Programming, Erfinder von SUnit und JUnit. Er schreibt in seinem Blog:

This is a story that has played out thousands of times: digital photography was worse than chemical photography, wireless LANs were worse than wired LANs, microcomputers were worse than minicomputers were worse than mainframes, Java was worse than C++. Now Chrome OS is worse than Windows and the Mac and Linux desktops.

After a decade of nibble, nibble, nibble, Apple and Microsoft will occupy highly-profitable but miniscule markets. If I had to guess I would say that Apple will have the very best high end desktops and Microsoft will be strong on servers. By that time, though, Chrome OS will have grown bloated with seemingly-indispensible features and will be ripe for a little nibble, nibble, nibble of its own.

The current desktops are dead, even though they will linger for a decade or more. Welcome, Chrome OS. Here’s to a worse future. (Kent Beck)