Google has delivered the knock out punch even before the first round began. The Google Chrome OS is free. It is open sourced and based on the Linux platform. This gives a shot in the arm to Linux and developers who were finding themselves marginalized by Microsoft and the commentators who were ever snapping at the Linux community for its non success vis a vis Microsoft.
Google has also announced a partial list of PC manufacturers it has decided to work with. The notable absence is of Dell and Sony. The partial list includes :
- Acer
- Adobe
- ASUS
- Freescale
- Hewlett Packard
- Lenovo
- Qualcomm
- Texas Instruments.
There is also good news for the developer community. The Google Chrome OS is likely to be ready and available by the end of this year. Google is also looking for full time developers to work on Google Chrome OS and interested developers can contact the following Google Offices :
- Mountain View, US
- San Francisco, US
- Kirkland, US
- Santa Monica, US
- Reston, US
- Montreal, CA
- Aarhus, DK
- London, UK
- St. Petersburg, RU
- Tokyo, JP
