Comments on: Complete migration towards Mac OS X

By: avinash

avinash — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:12:28 +0000

I bought TextMate some months ago… and I’m still discovering its features

By: avinash

avinash — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 10:49:27 +0000

I would love to have TextMate but I haven’t bought it yet. Perhaps in 1-2 months time. It seems to be really good. I have been using TextEdit (and, of course, vi) lately but TextEdit seems very primitive.

By: Kailash

Kailash — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 19:16:08 +0000

Hmm.. influenced by RoR hackers I believe.. working on TextMate err?
I’ll stick to RadRails.. don’t have a mac handy..

cheers
Kailash

By: Olivier

Olivier — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:43:18 +0000

I agree. Embedded devices, wearable computing, this is big. =)

By: avinash

avinash — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:30:38 +0000

Hi Olivier,

Mobile devices will be pervasive in 5 years. Most people will access the Internet using such devices. Hence, there will be a strong tendency for software vendors to create device-neutral applications (for instance by relying more on W3C standards)

Many major companies (IBM and HP for instance) are promoting Grid architectures where computing resources can be obtained on demand. This is the future. It’s too expensive for most (small) businesses to have their own IT department. Obvously, there must be some guarantees concerning confidentiality.

And, don’t forget Google! God knows what they are thinking to do in 5 years. Pity I don’t know Peter Norvig personally.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:14:34 +0000

Although I agree that a lot of apps will be web-centric, i still think infrastructure-type software will be ubiquitous. Because of business decisions, politics and power, software vendors will still focus on specific platforms for deployment… after all, portable code is not on everybody’s agenda given commercial constraints.

You are right though… I think many more apps will be web-centric, with industry killer Microsoft jumping in the arena with the Windows Live platform. Microsoft’s strategy: buy or assimilate, then kill.

The question is though, if you’re running a business and have to deal with confidential information, would you like to have your data hosted somewhere else? You benefit from redundancy perhaps, but what about privacy?

How about hardware access? Computationally demanding app’s? =)

Software-as-a-service IS real, but maybe it will just create a new way of using software with only slight interference with the way we use the computer. With the millions of people getting in touch with technology, this is quite a good prospect!

By: avinash

avinash — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:28:46 +0000

I’m an ex-Gentoo user. Life is too short As for FreeBSD, I don’t really know as Mac OS X is, in fact, a BSD Unix…

In 5 years, the OS will be irrelevant in my opinion provided you have a decent web browser. All major applications will be web-enabled. RoR will rule

By: aadil

aadil — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:50:11 +0000

For Gentoo or FreeBSD perhaps?

By: avinash

avinash — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:54:19 +0000

True. I’ve noticed that I switch to a new OS every 5 years or so. I’ve been using up to now:

MS-DOS (1988) -> AmigaDOS (1991) -> Windows 98 (1997) -> Linux (2000) -> Mac OS X (2006)

So, according to my calculations, I’ll quit Mac OS X by 2010

God knows for what!

By: aadil

aadil — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:46:53 +0000

Ah, Mac OS euphoria quand tu nous tiens! I give you like 2 years or less before you get sick of it and format the Apple OS and try other ‘free’ alternatives.

Else, I might be wrong.