Imagine being forbidden to step into your company's sister office only 13 miles away. For employees at an Israeli startup, the logistics of reaching their Palestinian coworkers not only would require navigating heavily secured military checkpoints, fences and walls, but would defy the Israeli government--Israelis are forbidden from entering Palestinian cities.

So what's a developer based in the Palestinian town of Ramallah to do when he needs to bounce a few ideas off a coworker located in the Israeli town of Modiin? He heads to the G.ho.st conference room, where a continuous video hookup runs between the offices.

G.ho.st, which stands for Global Hosted Operating System, looks to tap into the power of cloud computing and offer users a Web-based virtual computer. The official launch of G.ho.st is expected to be Oct. 31.

While utilizing third-party software from an Internet browser isn't exactly unique to G.ho.st, the circumstances of the company certainly are.

This Israeli-Palestinian partnership galvanizes the strength of collaboration despite location. It's difficult to name a place in the world with more division, yet G.ho.st channels the collective goal of many in the IT industry: using the power of technology to bring people--and a variety of applications--together.

It may sound a bit lofty, but the startup demonstrates that IT, much like the sports world, can cut across vast political and ideological differences and create something truly remarkable.

Read more about G.ho.st here.