It is interesting to Google chrome OS targeting. Instead of trying to attract consumers who have demonstrated that they are not interested in "Net PC" - as the browser - only material, Google positioned chromium OS hardware as alternatives good markets, low-IT overloads allowing enterprises to deploy to the desktop.
Talk show last week, John Gruber and Dan Benjamin discusses why he can finally be a good time to do this: many computers today in business existence solely to run a web browser. John is almost all computers in a branch of the typical Bank, on which agents usually just type your information into a series of forms of web browser to do their job. Assuming that Internet Explorer dependencies can be removed without too much difficulty, are ideal candidates to be replaced with chrome OS.
But there is a major problem with this idea: technological conservatism on this scale.
Most companies who could use such a facility are large, and deployment of a major technological change their staff is a huge and very expensive. Even though Google somehow gave thousands of chromium OS netbooks without charge, any attempt will must spend a ton of money in labor, training employees and an increase in help desk needs computer Organization deployed the new Setup program.
That is why on your desktop PC banker is probably running Windows 2000, a platform for 11 years: because it is extremely expensive to update, and the current system works acceptable without all spending massive, unique on this year's budget.
For the replacement of business software platforms, longevity is an important requirement. For OS chrome to be considered by any business sufficiently important, their IT decision makers will want to know that chrome OS is going to be around and supported by Google years now.1 means support, at least, the hardware must be available, software licenses must continue and security issues must be corrected.
And any reasonably competent computer direction can clearly see that Google, for all of their computational power, is not known for the longevity of the product.
Of course, their web-based products have been around for some time and are not going anywhere. But they are launching products much more each year who forget rapidly and many unsuccessful products are quietly abandoned a few months or a few years later.
The Google simply not in the business to support long term for a range of products unsuccessful. It is part of what allows you to keep releasing new things all the time while the geeks say Microsoft a boring old dinosaur. But it departments must their platform providers behave much more like Microsoft.
I doubt many IT new executions will take the risk that the chrome OS will be stable enough platform to deploy long-term staffing their. As the saying goes, nobody ever fired…
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