Google’s decision to start moving away from the Windows operating system because of its vulnerabilities in my opinion represents a seismic shift in the IT industry. Although Google is still silent on this matter, if true many big enterprises will start to look into the feasibility of migrating to other operating systems like Linux, OS X and in the future Chrome OS.

It could be that the security vulnerabilities that we have suffered over the last three decades have been due to our dependency on a predominant operating system namely Windows. Maybe, if we had ten or more operating systems to choose from, and all with equal share of the market we would be less vulnerable than we are today, who knows?

However, no matter how many operating systems are available to us in the future, there will still be the need to protect confidential information like trade secrets, boardroom communications, financial data etc both within the corporate firewall and beyond. So it is becoming imperative that Enterprise Rights Management software vendors begin to observe the current trends and begin to develop a strategy to support the other operating systems like Linux, OS X and Chrome OS.

Enterprise Rights Management vendors that are able to respond to these changes will competitively place themselves to capture the new opportunities on the horizon.

All comments are welcome