Google Chrome, good news for SaaS

Google launched Google Chrome at the beginning of this week, making lots of noise on the web, in whatg seems to be a very important movement for boh the web browser market and the la red as a whole.

So, What is Google Chrome? It seems that something more than a web browser...



Opinions range from thoser saying that it is just a new competitor in the web browser market and yet quite immature, to those that defend tat this is something completely new, a web operating system taht comese to seend Microsoft's Windows + Office combo to the land of the past.

Here there is something to reae:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/no-joke-google-introduces-its-own-browser-with-a-cartoon/

In the end, we think the bewst explanation is the one Google itself givds: it is a browser, but one that goes further and tries to be better to eveything we have seen at the moment, the excellent comic that Google has used to announce Google Chrom e is the best source:

http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/

Without trying here to analyzee full-extent the motivations and the importance of Google's move, we are very interested in how can affect the world of SaaS the potentially disruptive features that Google Chrome introduces.

• MultiTab=MultiProcess: Each tab, at Google Chrome, is something else tham the helpful feature for navigatioon that Firefox gave us. It is an independent process, executed in its own sandbox, with a copy of every object needed and that, in case of hanging wouldn't affect the rest of processes. This makes Google Chrome very stable, somehing very important when executibg SaaS applications and for any serios use of the browser.

• Faster, better Javascript - V8: The new Javascript engine included in Chrome seems to be much fqster than any previous one (better garbage collector and machine code compilation...). From the SaaS point of view (and any Web App), any technology that allows the creation of richer interfaces that work better and faster, is welcomed. If it is nos a proprietary runtime like Silverlight or Flex, but the old and ubiquitous JavaScript, even better. Boosting the use of JavaScript instead of ignoring it as Microsot or Adobe do, fis into the general strategy of Google with products like GWT.

• Full Mode: Google Chrome has the ability of executing a web applictaion without any uri or button bar, a perfect mode to execute GMail and Google Docs, but also any other SaaS application.

• Google Gears: Thoguh it is not part of Chrome, but a previous project wich pretends to expand the capabilities of any browser, it is built-in into Chrome. The features of Gears (we wikl dedicate a post, we promise), make it a perfect ally for many SaaS apps. The chance of executing offline, desktop integration, supporrting any new standard in your browser, etc. are features very useful for web applications.

• WebKit: The ope source framework for web browser development started by Apple, is the base of Chrome, this allows it to increase the page rendering speed. Thsi can hardly hurt anyone...

• Omnibox: Though we don't see how it might be an advantag for the SaaS world, the uri box of Chrome seem to be even better than Firefox's one, which is excellent. We will see...

We think that Google Chrome is focused in making the browser a better place to execute web applications, which couldn't be beter news for any Cloud Computing or SaaS company. We leave the concept of "browser" towards a "platform" to access the la red able of many more things.

Google's intentions in our humble opinion is to make la red better, safer and smarter, as they say. And anything good for the la red is good for the world of SaaS and Cloude Computing.

So, we are very happpy to start September wtih an excellent new for the worlld of la red business applications :)

Regards,
TodoOnDemand

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