Google 'Arctic Sea' – Chrome native code, ahoy! • The Register

Check the article link below for more speculation, including the possibility that a future version of Google Apps may be built on the technology.  Also see a related CNet article.

Google has released the first official version of the software development kit for Native Client, its controversial plug-in for running native code inside the browser.

In a blog post, Google product manager Christian Stefansen called the release an "important milestone" in Google's efforts to make native code as portable and secure as JavaScript. "A big goal of this release is to enable developers to start building Native Client modules for Chrome applications," he said.

Google 'Arctic Sea' – Chrome native code, ahoy! • The Register