A couple of months ago I have written a short post about how amazing the new Palm WEB OS is and how their engineers (marketeers, developers, etc ) have captured so well the essence of the Cloud Computing Paradigm (http://www.cloudviews.org/2009/01/squeeze-the-cloud-to-fit-into-your-hand/).

When Google introduced the Chrome browser. A broad discussion about it and about how it could be transformed in the OS of the Cloud emerged, without a great surprise Google introduced yesterday (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html) their plans to the Google Chrome OS.

Apparently this new OS is a real OS, based on Linux, it’s not a browser working as a sandbox for Cloud Application (Cloud OS) but I’ve no doubts that it will be a major step forward in the Cloud Computing paradigm.

The Web OS from Palm has a large set of features that they should use as example, but there is one important thing that they must have – the platform should be as open as the web. If Google would have any kind of temptation to close this new Chrome OS on their platform (GDocs, Gmail, etc, ) they will definitely end with their foot on moving sands and they will sink…