EyeOs : a web-based operating system

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The First Tuesday of April , on a Wednesday to avoid coinciding with the Barça match, featured the presence of the young Pau Garcia-Milà who explained, in a simple and fun way, his experiences as an entrepreneur, placing great emphasis on the birth and evolution of his professional project EyeOs.

The young man interviewed , who did not want to define himself as an fusion data entrepreneur , confessed that from a very young age he had already had entrepreneurial exploits and that at school he was “famous” for projects that did not always end up working out.

One of these projects was the creation of a blog where users could leave comments, with the limitation that it had to contain a minimum of 140 characters. It seems that this blog was the inspiration for the creators of Twitter , who before embarking on the project alone, were interested in the design and functionality of the structure that Pau and his friends created and suggested that they collaborate together to create what is now this well-known social network.

Pau “regretted” not having trusted his creation enough, since he could now have a significant percentage of the company’s shares. He took advantage of that moment to clarify, in an anecdotal way, the fact that he appears on Twitter simply as “Pau”, and jokingly said: “At the time I registered, the username “Pau” was free.”

As a key point of the event, Pau clearly defined the concept and operation of that allows the end user to have a web desktop that makes it possible to access all of their information (files, photos, documents, music, etc.) from any type of device that has an Internet connection (even if it has never been “touched”) and from anywhere in the world. This is what is called cloud computing . In addition, Pau explained that unlike what Google or Microsoft offer , for example, EyeOs is free software , so the user can install it on their server and avoid having to give their rights to someone else.

He said that EyeOs was born from a day in 2005 when he and Marc, his high school friend from Olesa de Montserrat, decided to have their files available on a server at home. All this to avoid having to go back to Marc's house, who lived on the other side of the town (which included having to climb a fairly steep slope), on those occasions when they forgot their pen-drive at home. And so they went from the initial idea of ​​installing a server to solve their mistakes, to what EyeOs is today , a company that employs 30 people, has agreements with IBM and Telefónica , and interacts with user communities in different countries around the world where the project is being developed and collaborated on.