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That requires applications to be written entirely in HTML/CSS/JavaScript, so is basically just packaging websites up as applications.

That'll depend on their licensing terms. The usual method for this sort of technology is a flat license fee (either one-off or annual) plus a per-unit royalty. If the license fee itself is low enough then we could soon see developers interested.

I remember this to be somehow different: IBM never targeted end users. Instead, IBM was an old-fassioned company that used to shell "computers" (using the term just like it was in 1980's) to large organizations and enterprises like banks, governments etc. They almost always used to shell both the hardware and the software.

OS/2 failed mostly because IBM never cared about end-user adoption. They did not consider end-user bugs (like the infamous single-message-queue problem). Technologically-wise, OS/2 was far superior to windows, providing true multitasking, great VM management, pure object-oriented interface and other great things that were later adopted by other OSes and became the de-facto. For example: OS/2 supported windows applications, it had most GNU libraries, there was a native X-server (making it possible to run linux apps) and the then-famous 'bochs' emulator was ported to it, making it possible to run MS Windows in a window under X under OS/2 (yes... they irony).

However, since IBM never supported end-users and since they were selling their own hardware, they never had drivers as a priority. Supporting foreign hardware was not an issue (after all, in their minds, they were the old great IBM) since they were providing the hardware as well. When windows 95 came out with 'plug-and-play' every user's life was made easier and every hardware manufacturer jumped in. No more user-based IRQ, DMA and I/O port configuration.

OS/2 Warp was just the dying breath because IBM only cared about its own world and its own customers. When their customers started using other hardware, OS/2 died. In fact, they were very very lucky because windows supported their platform. Else IBM could have died a quick death when windows were adopted, just like famous unix manufacturers (digital, sun, etc) did.

Anyone has any idea as to when Myriad plans to launch alien dalvik? and when will it become available to n900 users?

Hello Dancairo,

Have they responded to your e-mail as yet? I think it's obvious that i'm excited about this lol

meego??
http://megaobzor.com/Nokia-N9-sovers...vat-MeeGo.html

Hi..

No, no reply as yet, I've been checking regularly and got the N900 to check every 30 mins.. If and when they do, i'll be straight on here

It is no rumor that there's no increased interest in MeeGo. There has always been some interest in MeeGo.

Not that much MeeGo interest whitin Nokia management itself, either.

Who are the owners of the Myriad, does someone know?
Maybe it has been "clear" to them from the beginning, Nokia will license Alien Dalvik to every Meego-phone. There has been "dubious" spin-off companies from Nokia before also.

The first Meego-phone would have critical mass of working applications at once. Later then time and evolution mechanisms would tell if Android- or Qt-platform would dominate, or both.

Video reminded me of the one where Flash 10.1 is running on our n900.....

From the press release:

Myriad was created from the combination of industry leading companies, Esmertec and Purple Labs. It operates worldwide, with offices in Switzerland, France, UK, USA, Mexico, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Australia. Headquartered in Dübendorf Zürich Switzerland, Myriad is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX Symbol: MYRN). For more information, please visit www.myriadgroup.com.