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| {{Infobox_Company | company_name = Ghost Inc. | | |||
| company_logo = ] | | |||
| company_type = Private | | |||
| foundation = Ramallah & Jerusalem (2006) | | |||
| location = Ramallah & Jerusalem | | |||
| key_people = Zvi Schreiber, Tareq Maayah, | | |||
| industry = ] | | |||
| homepage = |}} | |||
| ==Introduction== | |||
| '''''G.ho.st''''', prounounced ''ghost'', is the trading name and URL of Ghost Inc., a competitor in the newly emerging Virtual Computer space. Ghost is an acronym for ''Global Hosted Operating SysTem'' which captures the key idea that the operating system is hosted in a data center and available globaly through any browser, in contrast with traditional operating systems which are installed locally on a specific computer. | |||
| The main benefit is complete portability of the operating system - a user can access their desktop, applications and date from any computer with a browser and Internet connection. Another benefit is collaboration - given that everything is online there are increased opportunities for synchronous communication, streaming information, sharing data, applications or even entire desktops. | |||
| Because of these benefits, now that broadband Internet connectivity is ubiqutous, some analysts believe that hosted operating systems will gradually take over from local operating system (like ], ] and ] over the coming years. | |||
| ==History== | |||
| G.ho.st was founded in the summer of 2006 and first went live on November 2, 2006. | |||
| The company is located in ], ], and in ] and is a collaboration of Palestinians and Israelis. | |||
| ==Product== | |||
| The Company's only product is a Virtual Computer (VC) running in the browser. It is free to the end user. | |||
| Key current features include: | |||
| * Hosted desktop | |||
| ** Start menu | |||
| ** Task bar | |||
| ** Quick launch menu | |||
| ** Widgets | |||
| ** Services (which run in Windows) | |||
| * Settings | |||
| * Persistence for the desktop and the Services and Widgets on it | |||
| Promised roadmap features include: | |||
| * Virtual file system | |||
| * Object sharing | |||
| ==Technology== | |||
| G.ho.st uses ] and the ] on the server side and ] compiled into Flash (and in the future DHTML) on the browser (client side). | |||
| ==External links== | |||
| * | |||
| * | |||
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