Cooperation in the Middle East Through Virtualization

Zvi Schreiber promotes virtual computing worldwide and very real human cooperation in the Middle East.

Schreiber's 70-employee company, G.ho.st, offers a virtual operating system. Any user, on any Internet-connected computer in the world, can log into G.ho.st's virtual desktop to write documents, send e-mail, store files, play games, and perform other activities normally done directly on one's own computer. The virtual desktop, an image of which is shown below, can contain useful widgets such as a news feed display.

Assigned a minimum 5GB of disk storage, users need only rather minimal machines of their own to do meaningful computing, which is especially beneficial in underdeveloped regions.

G.ho.st, headquartered in Tel Aviv, has an office in Ramallah. Israeli and Palestinian staff members collaborate, often in person, to enhance and support the product. G.ho.st is believed by its management to be the only company in the Palestinian Authority that offers employee stock options. Schreiber has received interest from other Israeli companies above cooperative business in Israle and the Palestinian Authority.

[Partly based on a report by www.worldjewishcongress.org, 11/08]

Sidelight

Can you determine what country the domain suffix .st (as in g.ho.st) is assigned to? How about .sj? Hint on .sj: it's a destination in a well-known trilogy by Phillip Pullman. Answers below.
  
  
  
 
 

Answers: .st -- Sao Tome. .sj -- Svalbard and Jan Mayen.