NetSuite, a company that touts itself as a provider of solutions that can help companies run almost every aspect of their business, announced Friday that it will be the first business application provider to provide native support for Google Chrome.
According to the company, Chrome’s browser is an ideal candidate for NetSuite products. Because the browser is optimized for Web 2.0, the company’s AJAX-powered features in its products should work much better on Chrome than any other browser. NetSuite was quick to point out, though, that its products can still be used on Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari.
Just like that and NetSuite got featured on TC. Good move! BTW, Chrome’s browser is also an ideal candidate for Dealyzer.
Dealyzer (and Martin, below):
Actually this post is one of the most important breaking news TechCrunch has ever published. I’m so happy to have been online when Don posted this incredible scoop about a cutting-edge company like NetSuite adopting an unbelievable invention like Google Chrome.
I’m hosting a party tonight for Don Reisinger, NetSuite and the integrity of all TC bloggers, to signify this important day in the history of computing.
Please join me at Campus Dr # 100, San Mateo, CA tonight (Friday) at 10pm. Veuve Clicquot champagne will be served together with Apple Schmoogle (sorry, Koogle).
OMG!!!
The post looks like an advert for NetSuite!
I personally don’t think your readers care about it.
I was going to ask the same question…what does native support for the Chrome browser mean? Isn’t the whole point of the browser that you don’t need to write native code - is there some SDK where you can take advantage of advanced features in Chrome by writing a native app, I missed that in the release
“native support for Google Chrome”. What does that mean?
considering chrome is built on webkit and firefox, I’m not really sure how this classifies as worth a post on techcrunch. Can I announce my blog as chrome friendly?
I’d like to announce that this comment is the first-ever Chrome-compatible comment.
That is awesome.
…and I believe your reply was the first Chrome-compatible comment reply. Congratulations!
Don’t feel that a native support can be given by 3rd party site, isn’t it?
Webkit is being worked on by the Google developers to give the best in Mac, then why Netsuite?
Quit showing your ingnorance guys. NetSuite is NOT a trivial website. It’s a complex web application with lots of client-side javascript/AJAX running. Not a trivial exercise to support multple browsers with such an application (as I have experienced in using past versions of NetSuite with Firefox).
Are you serious Jw? If your application can’t run correctly in WebKit (aka Chrome) then you have some serious issues. Do you code and test your full application in Internet Explorer or something?
Ridiculous.
We announced Chrome support 2 days ago… OK we are a bit more niche than Netsuite…. but we are still a business application provider! (in online travel)
I know people will say that Chrome support is just like other browser support - but we have (specifically for Chrome)
* Tweaked some of the form checkbox code - as there is a Chrome bug that doesn’t handle checkbox forms that well…. (or it could have been us - but Firefox / IE are more lenient - so it wasn’t picked up before)
* Changed our integrated documentation handling system. Our documents (such as invoice printing) work on RTF format. But Chrome doesn’t do RTF (yet) - hence we have terminated files with .doc - and Chrome works fine.
* Changed how documents load in the browser. Previously we would fire an RTF download into a new browser window….. but now we keep the download in the same window - and the, quite neat, Chrome download tool puts the file the a nice place on the desktop. Without the change we ended up with a number of blank browser windows….
So - changing our app for Chrome wasn’t too hard…. but on apps with longer development cycles it could be a problem!
Alex
AWESOME NetSuite! Moving quickly to support Chrome for such a complex business suite is impressive.
Time taken == 1 day.
Work done = 0 (didnt need to change anything, marketing announcements dont constitute work).
Therefore efficiency = Work/Time = 0.
Oh, you can’t be serious. It probably worked in Chrome right out of the box because it was already standards compliant, and so they thought, hey, let’s just press release this and see what happens. Bam, they make TechCrunch. Lucky saps.
Uhh … i heard TechCrunch.com was supported on Chrome too … BREAK NEWS!!!
Build your application correctly the first time and having it function properly on something like Chrome isn’t that impressive of a task.
As anyone had experience where their “main stream” application failed them in Chrome?
NS tries sugar coating their very bad, buggy and hard to use software. Rather this type of announcements, I suggest they focus a bit more on customer support (if there is any), make their software better and make their prices reasonable. They keep making non-sense buzz while their service never gets better. And if a poor customer wanna leave NS owns their data. Did I say their customer service is terrible!
Google chrome compatibility is yet another non-sense buzz. Salesforce made a good move working with Google document while back and NS is trying to come up with a “creative way” to stick Google to their name …. which does not work after all.
Cheers,
Chris
I agree. Netsuite has a horrible interface that makes no sense to use and is buggy to boot. It is also extremely expensive and I don’t know why anyone would continue to use it, even if it does offer every business solution under the sun.
I have to agree with Chris here … this is just a BS press release to generate some useless buzz around a topic. “Chrome Compatibility”, seriously? Really? Are we doing this right now?
Martin:
I have to disagree with you. This post is an important milestone in the history of computing. Please see my comment above and looking forward to meeting you at the party, tonight.
Of course it is. What isn’t? It’s actually very easy to be compatible with Chrome if you are compatible with Safari already. This is just an advertisement for NetSuite. Props to them though for making a meaningless press release with popular terms that bloggers may pick-up.
Salesforce.com worked 100% compatible with chrome the moment it was released. Why dont you write a story about that?
Or every other SaaS CRM provider that worked the moment chrome was released.
How much did Netsuite pay to get this post on TechCrunch?
The press release is in fact the working of a smart PR/Comm staffer…why not be the first web service to say that you are compatible with Chrome? Of course…to the techs this is meaningless since we would hope that your web app is certainly standards compliant.
Why this merits a post on TechCrunch is beyond everyone because there’s no analysis or additional research it’s just that…a post….and if that’s what TC wants to do I don’t mind - It’s still the #1 resource for the earliest news on web-related tech developments.
Because it is like me saying that my website is compatible with Oboma winning the Presidency — one has nothing to do with the other. Oh yeah, of course my website will still work if Oboma wins; and oh yeah, of course my website will still work in a progressive browser like Chrome.
My web application is also compatible with hurricane Hannah too; should be up and running perfectly through the entire thing.
Um. Huddle.net (a business application provider) worked with Chrome from the VERY MOMENT the browser was released. Score one to Netsuite’s PR team, I guess. Meh.
OMG!!! I am totally going to @TCCritic’s party tonight — see everyone there to celebrate this moment in computing history.
PFFFF that’s nothing, I wrote an app in Cocoa under Mac OS 10.5 and it worked with 10.5.2 RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX!!1
I love how NetSuite isn’t even itself claiming to be fully compatible yet with Google Chrome … from their official press release:
“NetSuite support for Google Chrome is being rolled out now in phases to customers. Once the rollout is complete in mid-October, all NetSuite and OpenAir functionality will work with Google Chrome’s current release.”
So, yeah, wait till mid-October while the rest of the world works as-is.
Off subject, but I just love their logo. Hypnotically good.
somehow the logo looks old-skool ms word–nothing bad with that
Geez, I want in on this gold… errr …chrome-rush!
OK, you read it here first. SalesView is the first socialprise application [http://tinyurl.com/6nddy6] to provide native support for Google Chrome. Done. I feel kind of dirty but I’m sure I’ll get over it with a shower or three.
This kind of trite “news” announcement makes it hard for other marketing folks to resist similarly bad behavior. I’m a product guy but even I’m tempted to spend 30 minutes and $50 to pump out a press release on Marketwire. Or can Techcrunch beat that price?
lol @ “native support for Google Chrome”
I just want to announce that Microsoft now supports Windows Vista.
This is the most worthless TechCrunch post in a long while. Of course any web app should be compatible, Chrome is based on Webkit, just as Safari is. If it’s compatible with Safari, it’s more than likely compatible with Chrome.
Michael, Erick… please just hit the delete button… don’t you find this kind of embarrassing?
Admit it, Don’s either rubbing someone’s back or Don goofed. I hope it’s the latter.
Awesome news! Hey Techcrunch, I am announcing I support Firefox at http://www.startstock.com
Oh, and I really support Javascript. Did I mention I support HTML too?
TechCrunch - Your official Google Chrome Channel. Come on guys Chrome is important (though I disagree with the reasons why TC thinks it’s important) but this is just way over the top as previous posters have indicated.
“Native” support for Chrome better mean use of Google Gears for offline usage…. otherwise just an opportunistic claim.
I use NetSuite daily. Chrome is definitely NOT even close to being 100% compatible.
Hell, FF3 is barely half way there.
They develop their code specifically for IE only.
At one point in time they didn’t allow Safari to access their site.