G.ho.st

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G.ho.st

Developed by	Ghost Inc.
Genre	Web application
Website	http://g.ho.st

Ghost Inc.
Type	Private
Founded	2006
Headquarters	Ramallah, West Bank and Modiin, Israel
Key people	Zvi Schreiber, CEO Tareq Maayah, Director
Website	http://G.ho.st

G.ho.st (usually pronounced ghost) is the trading name of Ghost Inc. and the service name and URL of the company's hosted computer operating system or WebOS service. Its name is an acronym of Global Hosted Operating SysTem.

1 Overview
2 Features
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Overview

The G.ho.st service provides, over the Internet, a working environment that mimics the classic desktop provided by personal computer operating systems. As an internet based service, users are able to create, save and return to a working environment from different physical computers. G.ho.st calls itself a Virtual Computer. In April 2007 the software entered alpha stage development, and as of May 2008 it remains in this stage.

Such services are not considered operating systems in the traditional sense although they are sometimes referred to as Web Operating Systems. Whilst they can include a GUI (e.g. a desktop), a (virtual) file system, application management and security, they do not contain a kernel to interface with physical hardware. Therefore, to use the service an operating system is required, from which the service can be run.

The company has received growing press coverage, due to the fact that Israelis and Palestinians work as partners to build the company's products. ^[1]

[edit] Features

Integration with third-party web applications (Google Docs, ThinkFree, Meebo, Zoho)
Mail/calendar/contacts program with (3GB free powered by Zimbra)
Storage (5GB free, FTP access)
Links to other internet resources (My Items)
Desktop widgets (RSS reader, clock, weather)
Multiple language support