Google Chrome will work with NetSuite’s on the web accounting and customer-relations software, the company stated Friday.
Elements of the company’s on the internet tools, including editing text and drag-and-drop operations, benefit from Chrome’s fast JavaScript, NetSuite stated. However, Google’s assertions of compatibility with Apple Safari notwithstanding, NetSuite stated it will gradually extend support to its customers, finishing by mid-October.
The company boasted it’s the first on the web business application to support Chrome, just as it was the first with native support for the iPhone’s version of Safari and the new Firefox 3.0.
But that sort of support seems more like a reasonably clever attempt to capitalize on the Chrome buzz than anything customers truly are clamoring for.
After all, NetSuite is geared toward businesses that typically are the kinds of conservative and technologically unadventurous customers who aren’t first in line to try the latest beta version of a Web browser. One of the reasons Microsoft won’t frog-march us all to World wide web Explorer 7, much less IE 8, is that many businesses have set up operations using IE 6, although it was introduced in 2001.
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