Yes the internet is not available to everyone, but just about anyone with a computer can access the internet.
Each OS has its own set of tools to make it part of the larger internet OS. For example windows has its IIS web server. Apache, the most popular web server, runs on just about ever OS including Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix. There are many other web server that are not as well known. Each OS has its own browser to allow client computers to consume Internet content. Windows has IE. Unix, Linux, and Mac all incorporate some incarnation of the Mozilla browser like Firefox. The native browser for the Mac is Safari. Then there are the third party browsers like Opera and Konqueror. These browser don't care whether the content they consume is coming from a Windows IIS web server, or a Linux Apache web server. The internet programming language is HTML, "Hyper Text Mark-up Language", which has been standardized across the internet, so all content displayed in the various browser looks and feel the same, regardless of OS, or web server. The internet protocol is HTTP, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol". All of theses are more part of the Internet OS, than part of their proprietary or open source companies. Then there are the browser plugins and runtimes like flash, java RE, silverlight RE, that extend html, allowing a more rich browser experience. Many applications are written using a browser framework, like my favourite IDE, komodo, which install with its own personalized version of the Mozilla browser. Also, many applications are distributed with a personalized version of the Apache web server, which is used to server their application and its content. Other applications can run over the internet using a desktop client application like FoxPro to connect to a database server like PostgreSQL, which is accessible over the internet, but a runtime must usually be distributed with the application. So, the internet has developed a life of its own, (eg OS), that is not dependent on a particular OS, but incorporates a standardized part in each traditional OS to form the greater Internet OS. Regards, LelandJ Allen wrote: > I would prefer my data to remain where it is anyway not on some google > server somewhere > Allen > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Alan Bourke > > > You could well be right. At the minute, though, it would be an OS that > isn't available to huge sections of the global population and is often > slow and flaky for those to whom it is available. > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
