Analogy between The Google OS and a traditionnal OS

Feature/Concept	Traditional OS	Google OS
CPU		Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
DMA		Memcached
Interrupts		Google alarms
File management	File system	Distributed file system (e.g. DHT), Amazon Simple Storage Service, Google (secret) distributed filesystem
File search	Agent Ransack	Google search engine
Network protocol	TCP/IP Stack	P2P streaming
Pipes	Unix pipes, named pipes	Yahoo pipes, Microsoft Springfield
Conversation	Unix talk	Google Talk
Web server	Apache	Amazon's Simple Queuing Service
User management	Unix/Windows XP accounts	Google centralized accounts
Window manager	Windows, X Window	Netvibes, Google homepage
Calendar	Outlook	Google calendar
Word processor	MS Office, OpenOffice	Google document
Spread sheet	MS Office, OpenOffice	Google spreadsheet
Presentation	MS Office, OpenOffice	Google presentation