A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

Will ChromeOS be the Next Big Thing for PLM?

Will ChromeOS be the Next Big Thing for PLM?
Oleg
Oleg
29 December, 2010 | 1 min for reading

I read GigaOM – The network computer arrives… finally! About three weeks ago, Google launched the Chrome application store and demonstrated Chrome OS, its browser centric netbook operational system. The Google’s philosophy behind Chrome OS is to build a browser that largely designed for applications rather than a browser for documents we have today.

Google posted a full video record of the event on the Youtube. You can get it by navigating your browser to the following link. If you have some free time during the winter break, watch the Google Chrome OS show. I made few notes when watching these videos:

– Chrome OS is about web and sharing
– Chrome OS is about low cost personal computing
– Chrome OS is about simple application access

If you short on time, watch the following video to have a basic idea about Chrome OS.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QRO3gKj3qw]

Enterprise Use Case for Chrome OS

At the time consumers might be checking options of Chrome OS vs. other alternatives like iOS and cool Apple devices, enterprises can find reasonable to adopt Chrome OS. Enterprise has a strong need for low-cost computers designed to do a certain task cheaply and without maintenance. Think about mainframe terminals in the past. So, back to the future. Chrome OS and HTML 5-based web apps that runs inside the browser are a perfect solution.

What is my conclusion? End user adoption is a significant problem for PLM software vendors. Complexity, Installation, Implementations – all these factors stops PLM proliferation in organizations. Cost is another aspect. It seems to me, Chrome OS has a potential to become a platform to deliver a value of PLM application to users in manufacturing organization.

Best, Oleg

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
13 June, 2018

Ola Rollen, CEO of Hexagon started his HxGN LIVE keynote from a heartbreaking video. Greenland’s barnacle goslings undergo one of...

9 February, 2015

Dear friends! I wanted to share some personal news with you. I decided to make a next change in my...

10 April, 2014

Cloud is raising lots of controversy in Europe. While manufacturing companies in U.S. are generally more open towards new tech,...

20 November, 2009

How you can explain to customers about PLM on cloud (or on demand)? Quite many times, I’m hearing a phrase...

11 January, 2025

If you cannot measure your business processes, you cannot improve them. I think everyone at least once heard this statement...

9 July, 2010

The problem of file conversion is CAD is long and never been easy. Engineers are working in multiple CAD systems...

13 March, 2009

As you know, new ideas often come from things already forgotten… Therefore, I like looking at research projects and experimental...

21 September, 2009

As it looks like, the first public results about CAD applications running from cloud are coming from Autodesk. My attention...

11 December, 2018

Everyone needs data, but nobody wants to be responsible for data management. I learned it during many years of working...

Blogroll

To the top