Re: Sounds oddly familiar
"However Chrome books is a big step as you are walking in to a vendor lock in situation with your eyes wide open this time"
...like, Macs and Windows you mentioned before is not "a vendor lock in situation"???
> "the exit strategy, if it all went wrong"
...but Chromebooks are exit strategy - kind of - because most of it went wrong already. It is all about diversification. You are arguing about diversification as essentially wrong move, and recalling back to the old vendor locked in situation, because of... "it could be hugely expensive as you would have to replace all the hardware too (IF it all went wrong)"???
Btw, regarding your "exit strategy", I bet you're Brittish. Brexit strategy indeed. "Sovereignty".
> "Also it is Google and they will use all your company's IP for advertising purposes and anything stored on its servers belongs to them and not you, so you forfeit your copyright and patents to it all." - Bollocks. Redmond FUD. It is called "Chrome Enterprise" - no advertising there. So, basicaly, what you said is that you pay for Enterprise edition so that your data belongs to Google. Utterly stupid.
Obviously, as said above: "Better the devil you know" ...(although) "But for the sake of fairness, Microsoft snaffles your data as well."
All of that reminds me of this joke: A fish and a crab were playing with a ball. Then the crab wouldn't toss the ball back to the fish. The fish cried, "You're shellfish!"
Biting the hand that feeds IT
