One day like today, back in 2005, we made public an idea about what the next step in working at Internet should be from our point of view. We called it “eyeOS“, because we wanted to create something visual and intuitive (eye), and similar to a traditional Operating System (OS) for the end user, taking advantage of the latest web technologies and sharing capabilities.

It’s really difficult for us to specify key moments in this three years. Competence has appeared, and sometimes eventually disappeared. We have seen how a market we started without knowing we were doing it has been growing and growing, and there are now more than 50 web operating systems out there. We have given more than 35 conferences about this concept and eyeOS recives about 250.000 unique visits per month now.

Of course, there have been problems during this three years. But all those problems have had a common point: They have been solved thanks to the community behind eyeOS. eyeOS has grown with its community, and some of the members that were there since the first days are today the people who mantains the eyeOS Websites Network, forums, blog, wiki, mailing lists, and even creates some parts of the eyeOS main code.

This is why eyeOS survived in some difficult moments and this is why today eyeOS in the de facto web desktop.

Today, eyeOS is celebrating his third birthday. Thanks to every one of you.

We’re happy to announce a new partnership with GMV, which will deliver new and exciting projects based on the Open Knowledge, by joining the experience and expertise from GMV and the Open Source eyeOS Web Desktop Platform to provide enterprise-ready Web Desktop Solutions, expanding the eyeOS usage worldwide.

GMV is a technological enterprise group with an international presence which operates in nine large sectors: Aeronautics, Space, Defense, Health, Security, Transportation, Telecommunications and Information Technologies for public and private organizations. You can read more about GMV in this document [PDF, 1.5MB, 24p].

We would like to thank the whole GMV team (with a special effort on the SGI -Global Internet Solutions- part of the company) who has trusted the eyeOS platform since its begginings and is now entering a new step in the Web Desktop Solutions, with our team.

All the benefits derived from this new partnership will be noticeable from the eyeOS Open Source Platform and the eyeOS Community, starting with some public events late 2008 that will be announced this summer.

If you are in Spain during June, you will have some opportunities to discover eyeOS and the eyeOS Team point of view concerning Web Operating Systems and Open Source software in the following (free) events/conferences:

-Suscipe Enterpeneurs Forum (in Madrid), on June 4th, to present the project, its history and future. You can confirm the assistance in this page.

-The Coffee Break 2008 (in Cáceres) on June 13th and 14th.

And possibly, another one on June 26th in Ourense (still to be confirmed). We’ll soon confirm this last one and publish some other events during July, in Spain.

If you are interested in the eyeOS Team to give a conference in your University/Forum/Company, please contact at team @ eyeos.org.