“What the world really wants,” Ellison told the crowd, “is to plug into a wall to get electronic power, and plug in to get data.” With all the cheap netbooks a

“What the world really wants,” Ellison told the crowd, “is to plug into a wall to get electronic power, and plug in to get data.” With all the cheap netbooks and handhelds today, this is the end-point I see the world saturating to. Well, apart from developers - who need good full-feature machines with apps and toolkits - the others would only need access to the internet. I see it something like "turn on the computer" vs "turn on the net". Bulding an OS around a web browser, Chrome OS, I think is a step towards this goal. [EDIT: Oh ya. Chrome OS has a mention at the end of the article] ”Mr. Larry is near Australia in his sailboat and can’t be reached,” I believe that whatever hotshot CEO you are, you must always be accessible by your employee and be ready to discuss their problems (atleast if not your customer if you have a CS team).