Sun Should (Will?) Buy Joyent
So I got the demo today for the new Joyent Slingshot:
[from Joyent Slingshot]Introducing Joyent Slingshot
Joyent Slingshot allows developers to deploy Rails applications that work the same online and offline (with synchronization) and with drag into and out of the application just like a standard desktop application. We have Joyent Connector and a select group of third party applications working under Joyent Slingshot. Joyent plans to have Slingshot available for general release on both Windows and Macintosh OS X in late April, 2007.
It's late, I'm tired. I won't wax philosophical on the obvious value of offline use of apps that can sync later on with the server. It's the Lotus Notes model redux. Totally cool. Drag and drop, all sorts of rich app capabilities provided to anyone using the Slingshot framework.
An obvious buy for the new Sun, and based on the footsie going on between Sun and Joyent, I bet it's not long coming. I bet Joyent (is it named after Bill Joy?) will be part of Sun in less than a few months.
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