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Quote by: Praxius  What I'm wondering is yes, it'll be good for the internet and such, but what about other things like graphic design, video games, movie and music playing, and other programs? | All of those are, of course, massively profitable. But a more important question is if it will run business software. I presume that it won't run data base management applications. While Microsoft made an effort to offer a DBMS (SQL Server), it only achieved limited success. I worked with it (in fact, certified DBA) and the spin-off when the partners in the development went their separate ways - Sybase as I recall. (Also certified DBA in Sybase.) But the real stopper to a new OS are data bases like Oracle and Progress (also certified DBA in Progress). They run on UNIX. Lots of major accounting software (my experience was with PeopleSoft) that accesses these data bases are Windows GUI applications that generate SQL commands that update and report on the UNIX data base. These applications have end user applications as well as programmer/manager applications. There are also several report and update programming languages (called SQLR) that are windows based and are used for producing specialized reports and update/correction abilities. These languages compile code that accesses SQL data bases. I suspect that the Google OS won't be developing any meaningful data base or any UNIX interface or SQLR application any time soon.
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