Netbooks running Google Android? Can't be!

Yeap, it's 2009, and happy new year to all! The new year starts with news about a couple of guys, Matthäus Krzykowski and Daniel Hartmann, over at VentureBeat who successfully grafted Google Android onto an Asus EEEPC 1000H; and it took them only 4 hours to do so.

"Here’s the significance: Imagine the billion dollar market at stake here if Google can make good on this vision. Netbooks are basically small-scale PCs. For Silicon Valley myriad of software companies, it means a well-backed, open operating system that is open and ripe for exploitation for building upon. Now think of Chrome, Google’s web browser, and the richness it allows developers to build into the browser’s relationship with the desktop — all of this could usher in a new wave of more sophisticated web applications, cheaper and more dynamic to use. Ramifications abound: What does it mean for the stock price of Microsoft? Microsoft currently owns the vast majority of the desktop operating system market share? In recent weeks, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer repeatedly dismissed Android as competition to Windows Mobile."

Source: Android netbooks on their way, likely by 2010