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Enterprise to Chrome: Not in my Backyard |
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According to a recent CIO Jury Poll:
"In silicon.com's latest exclusive CIO Jury poll, the respondents revealed they were still steering clear of the application, with 10 out of 12 saying their IT teams are not testing it."
The Jury Members included:
Chris Broad, head of IS and Technology, UKAEA
Pete Crowe, IT director, Fat Face
Nic Evans, European IT director, Key Equipment Finance
Madhushan Gokool, IT manager, Storm Model Management
Paul Haley, director of IT, Aberdeen University
Iain Hepburn, IT director, Clarke Willmott
Peter Pedersen, CTO, figleaves.com
Richard Storey, head of IT, Guys & St Thomas' Hospital
Andrew Watson, CIO, British Transport Police
Jane Kimberlin, IT director, Domino's Pizza Group
Mike Roberts, IT director, The London Clinic
Andy Jackson, head of IT, Huveaux
One of the reasons for not testing chrome in the enterprise is due to the existing infrastructure and it's dependency on Microsoft products.
According to Iain Hepburn, IT Director at law firm Clarke Willmott, "We use MOSS [Microsoft Office SharePoint Server] and extensive other MS applications and development tools, so we pretty much live in a MS world and have to use IE to get full functionality. We will be watching with interest though and any competition which forces everyone (MS) to raise their game is good for the consumer. We await the release of IE8 and what that may bring."
Some of the CIOs on the list have tested the browser personally, however, the enterprise is slow to adopt Chrome because it's still early in the development cycle and the majority of the members have adopted a wait and see approach to fully test and implement it in their IT environment.
You can read the entire story on the poll at silicon.com here:
http://www.silicon.com/silicon/ciojury/0,3800003161,39295112,00.htm
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