(CP) This is one of the most confused articles I've seen in months, but it's interesting enough to mention.?AltaVista, the search engine company, has announced their completely web-based operating system which will "go head-to-head with the Mac OS and Windows." The point of it is to simplify web development.?With it, you can magically write a 5,000 line ecommerce program in 50 lines.?And how exactly does it work? This kind of focus on the Web cannot be accomplished with conventional operating systems since they are hardware-centric, not Web-centric. (sarcasm) I hate how my operating systems are so focused on my hardware! The OS software called Aestiva is available for many platforms, including Linux, Windows, MacOS7-9 and MacOSX for $799.?I would think it needs to be independant of an underlying OS before it can really compete with one, though.?
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