Enterprise adoption of netbooks running Google's Chrome OS will follow the path of its hosted apps, in which small businesses were the initial adopters, says a company executive.
Speaking at a press event here Thursday, Caesar Sengupta, product management director for Google's Chrome OS project, explained that netbooks powered by the platform will be adopted first by smaller enterprises before garnering support from large multinationals.
Based on the search giant's Web browser, Chrome OS is targeted for release by the end of this year and will only run Web apps on custom-made lightweight machines.
Sengupta said Google Apps, the company's Web-based office suite, has so far gained traction with the SMB (small and midsize business) segment and educational institutions.
More: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/hardware/0,39042972,62060386,00.htm
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Speaking at a press event here Thursday, Caesar Sengupta, product management director for Google's Chrome OS project, explained that netbooks powered by the platform will be adopted first by smaller enterprises before garnering support from large multinationals.
Based on the search giant's Web browser, Chrome OS is targeted for release by the end of this year and will only run Web apps on custom-made lightweight machines.
Sengupta said Google Apps, the company's Web-based office suite, has so far gained traction with the SMB (small and midsize business) segment and educational institutions.
More: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/hardware/0,39042972,62060386,00.htm
