Now the Netbook is taking the laptop market by storm. Originally designed for the bottom end of computing, the Netbook (a small lower powered laptop designed for the web and email) is now one of the hotest categories of laptops.
One of the Dell Netbooks with a 10 inch screen
Really, we wonder what took so long. Three years ago we looked for a minature laptop that we could keep in our car and hit WiFi spots. We cold not find anything and thus we bought the 12 inch iBook. This was actually fortuitous as is lead to our total conversion of Mac (pretty soon all of our computers were Mac).
Now with all these Netbooks, the emphasis increasingly leans towards net hosted applications. So many application spaces should be there already, but our hardware and operating system centric view of computing is a hard habit to break. One classification of software we very much expect to move to the net is ERP programs. A new grouping of software called open source ERP is beginning to gain a foothold. Watch out SAP and Oracle, giant implementations with massive complexity may eventually be a thing of the past. Imagine if a litttle thing like the Netbook lead the way to a new computing model. However, no matter how cool these little Netbooks are, we are not going back to Windows.
