Chrome Not Ready For Enterprise

Nothing gets adopted by the Enterprise until it has been proven. IT departments rarely adopt new technology when it just comes out.

If there was any Enterprise company considering using a 0.1 version of Google's first browser, they are in need of a new IT department.

"the lack of ActiveX support will create problems in the enterprise and there are other usability issues that will occur (such as the password entry and popup problems our reader experienced)."

So Enterprises that invested in IE applications rather than web applications are not ready for Chrome then.

The real question is whether the influence of IT departments can hold back the reintroduction of the open web to big companies.

duh?

It only came out this week, and prematurely at that. Not much of a surprise that it's not "ready for enterprise".

There's little chance of "Enterprise" even evaluating it before 6 months have passed anyway. Then they'll take a year to come to a conclusion. If they even bother to do it at all.

The whole question is irrelevant anyway, since the aim of Chrome is not to distribute Chrome itself, but to get everyone to adopt the technologies inside Chrome. As they say themselves, "success" will be when even IE adopts Chrome technologies.

Did the meaning of "beta" escape them?

Maybe ReadWriteWeb isn't ready to write about software.

Summary: "Enterprise" has built itself up around IE and Windows. Chrome doesn't support ActiveX and doesn't work on some sites that were poorly written and only tested on IE. Therefore, Chrome is "not ready" for enterprise.

First, I really hate this "X is not ready for Enterprise" meme. It's basically a way to push conformity on businesses. By doing what everyone else is doing you don't have to make any real choices. It's a weak strategy.

Second, the story should be "Enterprise not ready for Chrome". Writing tools and webapps that only work in one browser is not a winning strategy.

Some users are scared to death when they see "ActiveX Plug-in" in "about:plugins" page while others criticize "the lack of ActiveX support". How ironic.