Re:Chrome Enterprise
by djsumdog on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @08:18PM
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I agree. I think to CentoOS vs RedHat or any terrible product made by IBM (I'm looking at you WebSphere). I've been at companies where we had multi-million dollar support contracts and it was still next to worthless; involved zipping and shipping tons of logs files, and ultimately was solved with help from people on IRC/StackOverflow or some random forum than by the support company themselves.
If you've got good devs and admins, the support is really not all that useful. When it comes to managed chromebooks, I bet you could get a similar cost saving experience if you took one desktop and one linux admin and had them try sourcing chromebook-like PCs, installing Linux on them and experimented giving them to employees only needing access to web apps.
Sure you don't get the managed chrome store or whatever, but I bet it'd meet most use cases for a lower cost. Some high schools have managed chromebook programs so there are people out there doing this already.
If you've got good devs and admins, the support is really not all that useful. When it comes to managed chromebooks, I bet you could get a similar cost saving experience if you took one desktop and one linux admin and had them try sourcing chromebook-like PCs, installing Linux on them and experimented giving them to employees only needing access to web apps.
Sure you don't get the managed chrome store or whatever, but I bet it'd meet most use cases for a lower cost. Some high schools have managed chromebook programs so there are people out there doing this already.