Google Rolls Out Chrome Enterprise: Chrome OS For Work

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google Rolls Out Chrome Enterprise: Chrome OS For Work

Google has today announced Chrome Enterprise as a subscription service to take Chrome OS and Chromebooks into more work environments...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-Enterprise

[starshipeleven]

Oh yes. Oh fucking yes.



EDIT: Btw, if you want to install and run ChromiumOS (nearly ChromeOS though) on PCs without much pain I recommend Neverware. https://www.neverware.com/

[anarki2]

That price tag is a little hefty...

[starshipeleven]

That price tag is a little hefty...

That's like 250$ less of what RedHat charges for the same thing. Hey, 24/7 enterprise-grade customer support for 50 bucks per year is quite cheap.

[dstaubsauger]

Wow this is awful. The lock-in into Google's centralized online "services" is much deeper than typical Microsoft based environments. It's so irresponsible to trust everything an organization does to such a service, including all (usage) data that Google gets from this. Stallman was right, we should have listened when he started complaining about proprietary JavaScript that runs in your browser.

[starshipeleven]

Wow this is awful. The lock-in into Google's centralized online "services" is much deeper than typical Microsoft based environments.

Nah, that's at most on par (can't compete on worstation software). It's a worthy competitor.

It's so irresponsible to trust everything an organization does to such a service, including all (usage) data that Google gets from this.

Windows 10 phones home quite a lot too, and Office 365 (Office-as-a-service + cloud + stuff) is also a thing in businness.

[uid313]

Seems really good for enterprises. I would think that most work places probably don't need anything more than what is offered by a Chromebook then use that together with some web applications.

So then it is probably more secure than having Mac or Windows computers.

[hrkristian]

Seems really good for enterprises. I would think that most work places probably don't need anything more than what is offered by a Chromebook then use that together with some web applications.

So then it is probably more secure than having Mac or Windows computers.

Perhaps not for large, established businesses (legacy software/services) but for startups/young businesses it has to be a pretty sweet deal.

[starshipeleven]

Perhaps not for large, established businesses (legacy software/services) but for startups/young businesses it has to be a pretty sweet deal.

many modern company software (for management and office stuff anyway so documents, fetching information from databases and making graphs) are WebApplications, basically a private website running in a company server (= some php+java/C#+javascript abomination) so ChromeOS does have an appeal for big companies too.

[Vistaus]

many modern company software (for management and office stuff anyway so documents, fetching information from databases and making graphs) are WebApplications, basically a private website running in a company server (= some php+java/C#+javascript abomination) so ChromeOS does have an appeal for big companies too.

And even if big companies can't fully replace their workstations with ChromeOS devices, I'm 100% sure they can replace at least *some* of the workstations or laptops. Not every employee needs a full-fledged computer.