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Chromebooks for Business

For the past 30 years we have struggled (and some of us made a living) with managing, configuring and supporting PCs. For just as many years folks have been talking about ways to make this easier. After all maintaining PCs can be a very expensive endeavor for businesses and a time consuming task for homes and families.

For many years Google has been leading the way of the web-as-the-only platform you need for your computing needs. Google was a web-company, before the web was really cool. They had the vision and foresight to stick with it.

Other companies (Oracle, Citrix, Wyse, IBM to mention a few) have tried to embrace the ‘thin-computing model, but unfortunately has not taken roots in the mass-market.

On May 11th Google announced (availability on June 15) of Chromebooks for Businessand businesses should be excited!

The offering can be summarized as follows:

For a flat-fee of $28 ($20 for educational and government) per user per month, you get: Hardware, Software, Support and hardware refreshes.

Software *and* hardware as a Service!

What makes this possible?

Several converging technologies: Browser advances (Chrome), Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Better Processors; HTML5, and many more..

Bottom line: “You can do everything on the web”

I am excited about this latest chapter of computing. The disruption of the model that has been in place for 30 years is well overdue. The possibilities are endless!

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