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Google Chrome OS: enterprise grade?
Stephen Withers
Thursday, 09 July 2009 11:45
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"That will allow them to shift their IT investment to building powerful web-based applications and systems and that's where Devnet's experience and expertise lies."Some other issues relating to Chrome OS have been raised since its initial announcement.
The overlapping directorships between Google and Apple (Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Genentech CEO Arthur Levinson sit on the boards of both companies) have already been called into question given that Google's Android and Apple's iPhone OS compete in the smartphone platform market.
There's also Safari and Chrome, and iPhoto and Picassa.
The introduction of a Google operating system would increase the extent to which the two companies compete.
Furthermore, Google's huge share of the search market could be another source of antitrust concern.
While it probably isn't as clear-cut as Microsoft's bundling Internet Explorer with Windows, if Chrome OS ships preset with Google as its search engine - not to mention Gmail as its mail application, Google Docs as its word processor and spreadsheet, and so on - questions will surely be asked.
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