On the announcement of Google Chrome, Google's new entry into the "browser wars", Larry Dignan actually said:

"However, there is a bigger question here. How much do you want to rely on Google for your business?"

On re-reading his article he also conveniently sidesteps the entire open-source issue.

That's right girls and boys, Google Chrome is announced as open-source and so is the JavaScript VM they have had developed for it. So the real question is...

Does Google even matter when the product is open-source and cross platform? Certainly Google's mindset is to create a cross-platform browser with new standards for application development, and what better way to create a new standard than to make it open-source?

I think this is a great play for Google. The geeks are sure to jump onboad immediately. I forsee Firefox implementing some of the technologies that Google is developing. I forsee Microsoft trying to clone it in IE9 while still locking you into Microsoft technologies, in true Microsoft fashion.

I forsee this as the next nail in the Microsoft coffin.

Dennis Howlett, also of zdnet, says that no CXO is going to give Chrome all that much thought.

Wrong, Dennis. CXO's who want to stay on top of their game are going to jump on the bandwagon faster than you can say security. I know I am. Sure I probably won't deploy it to all my workstations today, but I'm certain that my department will be running it on their own machines by the end of the day, just to see how it works.