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CAD / PLM on Chromebook?

CAD / PLM on Chromebook?
Oleg
Oleg
3 January, 2014 | 2 min for reading

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Our hardware life is much more diversified these days. Smartphones and tablets made a dent in the universe of Windows computers. Mac computers are more visible these days, but still the majority of engineering and manufacturing business systems are running on Windows. However, here is an interesting number I learned from Techcrunch article Google’s Chromebooks Have Hit Their Stride earlier this week.

According to the latest numbers from NPD, Chromebooks accounted for 21 percent of all laptop sales and almost 10 percent of all computer sales to businesses in 2013. That’s up from virtually nothing in the year before. Given that Apple is irrelevant in commercial channel sales (it commanded a whopping 1.8 percent of sales), Chromebook’s increased share is coming at the cost of Windows.

Another article from Forbes – Google Chromebooks Are Now 21% Of Notebooks Sold Through US Commercial Channels brings a specific example of computers.

Of Amazon’s three best selling offerings in the field over the holidays two were Chromebooks. On Thursday, Amazon.com AMZN -0.39% called out a pair of Chromebooks — one from Samsung, the other from Acer — as two of the three best-selling notebooks during the U.S. holiday season. The third: Asus’ Transformer Book, a Windows 8.1 “2-in-1″ device that transforms from a 10.1-in. tablet to a keyboard-equipped laptop.

It made me think about how much of CAD / PLM software is ready to be certified and compliant to Google OS. The straightforward thinking can bring you to the point where everything that runs on Chrome browser should run on Chrome OS. However, looking over few article and materials related to Chromium certification here I don’t think it is very straightforward. At the same time, I didn’t find lots of Google Chrome OS certification guidance.

What is my conclusion? 21% of laptop sales is a significant number. It might be invisible today, but introduce a trend. It is something better to be introduced earlier in the development project to get some pure CAD / PLM projects from full dependency of IE. Just my thoughts…

Best, Oleg

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