Google Chrome: A Hit with Online Software Vendors
With its ability to load pages quickly and its resistance to crashing, online software vendors such as Zoho and Socialtext see Google's new Chrome web browser as a good opportunity for delivering business software.
The "fail gracefully" comment refers to the fact that traditional browsers, often overrun from too much JavaScript (or at least too much of it that's poorly written), can crash, losing all the user's work. According to Google, this happened because browsers haven't supported multiple processes that well. In other words, if a browser loads JavaScript in one application, it has to complete that process before it lets you fully open another tab and Web application.
According to Google, the Chrome browser handles multiple processes and doesn't crash your whole browser when one app fails.
While vendors, especially those of the Web 2.0 variety, have begun embracing Chrome and are enthusiastic about its future, Sheri McLeish, a Forrester analyst, says that Chrome will have a long way to go with businesses since so many have planned their apps around Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
"There is a lot of enthusiasm and excitement over Chrome, particularly on the technical side," McLeish says. "The speed with which pages are served up is really fast. But this is a beta release. It will take some time to mature and may take some time for enterprises as they view their investments in IE."
