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Re: Chrome browser for businesses

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I thought this had been around forever? (I mean some form of installer and deployment kit/admin tool) I see other pages talking about it going back to 2010/2011

This appears to go far beyond that though. The policy and maintenance pieces in IE/Edge were one of the biggest reasons for some of the larger companies I've worked with that they had for staying off of other browsers. This looks to fix that.

Re: Chrome browser for businesses

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It will be so much better for developers if there is another browser installed apart from IE in all enterprises.

I still encounter companies downgrading to older version of IE to support their legacy applications.

Re: Chrome browser for businesses

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post #2

I thought this had been around forever? (I mean some form of installer and deployment kit/admin tool) I see other pages talking about it going back to 2010/2011

Wow, this is news to me. If it started in 2010/2011, then why are enterprise still using IE?

Re: Chrome browser for businesses

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post #5
post #2

I thought this had been around forever? (I mean some form of installer and deployment kit/admin tool) I see other pages talking about it going back to 2010/2011

Wow, this is news to me. If it started in 2010/2011, then why are enterprise still using IE?

Enterprises can't upgrade until all the software they depend on support Chrome. And those services aren't in any particular rush.

Re: Chrome browser for businesses

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I think most interesting part of all this is that they're offering support for this[1]. So that and it now being a part of G suite is making it an 'official' service/product.

And since Chromium browser is an open source browser which receives many contributions from many developers[2], this will add Google to the list of companies which take contributions from OSS and make money off it.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not aware of any other OSS product which contributes to their revenue in a direct way. Only thing that comes close is Kubernetes and then Tensorflow, but both aren't in the same 'level' that chrome is in now.

[1]:https://enterprise.google.com/chrome/contact/?lsc=assist [2]:http://www.chromium.org/Home

Re: Chrome browser for businesses

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post #9

I think most interesting part of all this is that they're offering support for this[1]. So that and it now being a part of G suite is making it an 'official' service/product. And since Chromium browser is an open source browser which receives many contributions from many developers[2], this will add Google to the list of companies which take contributions from OSS and make money off it. Please correct me if I'm wrong…

Many of Red Hat's products are simply rebranded versions of open-source products that they sell and support.
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