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Why not google calendar

Google calendar is built for personal use. AirSet works better under group environments when more than one person is involved.

Hi Irfan,
I don’t know if you spent enough time with AirSet to understand how we are different. What we are really creating is the first Group Cloud Computer, the other solutions you mentioned, like EyeOS, ghost, and symantec’s new offering are really just personal cloud computers. We expect that people will continue to do most of their personal computing tasks, well, on their personal computers. While you can do wonderful things with modern web technologies, its still hard to beat an app written to the native hardware for personal productivity. But when the application is more about coordinating with a group, you can deliver a better solution on the web because you can allow everyone to access the data from anywhere.

Brian
CEO, AirSet

@Brian,

eyeOS is not just a “personal cloud computer”. It does support multi-user collaborations. We used it in a Health Grid project (http://www.health-e-child.org/) , where partner hospitals used an eyeOS portal to launch applications and collaborate on specific scientific analyses. However, we had to be significant changes to the code to add the applications which were specific to our infrastructure.