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Think about it this way: Google is offering enterprises an alternative to 1) thin clients (big investment), 2) PC refreshes (big investment), and 3) Microsoft e
by eitally 3y ago
Think about it this way: Google is offering enterprises an alternative to 1) thin clients (big investment), 2) PC refreshes (big investment), and 3) Microsoft endpoint licensing (big investment). They've done this by creating a fully managed version of ChromeOS that can be installed on any x86 PC, and by adding software on top of it that allows ChromeOS to run remote Windows apps (just like a traditional thin client).
It's very appealing in some industries (like manufacturing), which has already been doing very well with ChromeOS.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoHuh? What manufacturing industries do you know on ChromeOS? In Germany, 90% of manufacturing industry is knees deep windows.
- Dalewyn 3y agoI can't be bothered to read the trainwreck of an article, but I am assuming this is basically an RDP terminal to a Windows mainframe.
- LeifCarrotson 3y agoKnee deep? In the US, 90% of manufacturing is up to their earlobes in Windows. The most popular HMI is an Allen Bradley Panelview which runs Windows CE 6.0. The most popular PLC is an AB CompactLogix/ControlLogix, which can only be edited using an IDE that runs on Windows. Ignition is making significant inroads with Linux servers on the SCADA side, and I have heard of people building machines with Beckhoff TwinCAT BSD, but Windows is everywhere.
- eitally 3y agoI spent 15 years in high tech manufacturing IT, the latter half running test engineering and end user computing. Manufacturing processes will likely NEVER move off Windows and there are plenty of airgapped NT4 machines out there still, and millions of unsupported homegrown apps running on top of old versions of MSSQL or even Access. This is besides the fact that there are machine connectors for Windows that don't exist for anything else -- it's a no brainer. But, that doesn't mean ChromeOS hasn't been making inroads in manufacturing. Sales of ChromeOS Kiosks for Digital Signage are strong, and so is the adoption of cheap Chromeboxes & ChromeOS laptops for things like digital work instructions, check-in/out, and all sorts of manufacturing-adjacent processes/controls that don't require a full Windows PC. 10-15 years ago there was a trend to move a lot of this to traditional VDI, and that's the market that Google has been targeting. This is just a small fraction of the overall manufacturing IT market, but for Google -- starting from $0 -- it's meaningful.
- close04 3y ago> PC refreshes PCs get refreshed because like anything else, they start failing when they get old and this is worse when they're also out of support. Dealing with a never ending stream of hardware failures, while trying to source parts from eBay is not made better by the fact that they run shiny Chrome. You also might not want to share the data you put in those apps with Google too. So fine-ish if you have an old computer at home, probably not so much if you have thousands of client devices to support, and data confidentiality to maintain. And then you're at the mercy of Google and their not so stellar reputation to not can the whole thing just after you're done putting in the effort.
- bayindirh 3y agoThat starts to happen after ~10 years in my experience. I have seen PCs under high loads and working without any problems after 12-13 years, too. Considering performance increases are minimal when compared to last decade, keeping a 5 year old fleet alive for another 3 to 5 years is a big win for any company.
- justinsaccount 3y ago10 years for a good PC. The problem is people and business buy shitty minimum spec computers that are borderline obsolete the day they arrive. My wife got a "new" laptop a few years ago. It had 8G of ram and a HDD.
- niutech 3y agoJust switch to SSD and she will feel the difference. Even when swapping to disk, it's much faster than HDD.
- justinsaccount 3y agoWow really? Please tell me more about this amazing new technology.
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