Google Chrome Frame versus IE9

I wonder what is more productive: getting employees  configured with Google's Chrome Frame in IE 8 or inviting users to install the Curl.com runtime engine (the Curl RTE) - which path gets a more useful, maintainable, long-term result for a corporate IT requirement to provide a user with some feature?

If Curl 8.0 removes even a click or two from the RTE install procedure ... ;-)

At one time I could have compared creating and maintaining a Google Gears app and a Curl app, but that is not now even moot ...

That leaves JavaFX or AIR or ? Oh yes, Silverlight.  Without DLL's, right?  Without that "DLL Smell" - right?

And why is this Chrome Frame/IE8 vs IE9 Canvas (HTML5) even a question?  Well, why would a business running fine on Windows XP want to move to Windows 7?  Just to get IE 9 ?  Aside from the agenda of corporate IT, what did Vista provide?

One sure thing that IE9 on Windows Vista or 7 guarantees is HD video with hardware-acceleration for employees viewing YouTube on company time.  And that comes just as Intel announces their intent to move the GPU into the CPU.  Oh vey ... why did your employees in Payroll and A/R or A/P need those nvidia 9800 graphics cards?

Or is this for Account Executives video conferencing with prospects?  Not likely.

If the Help Desk gets a better result with remoting to the client under Windows 7 - fine*; but that PC should not be the same one that they use on your company intranet. Nix that idea.  Their old single core CPU box running XP should serve them fine on your network.  Or did you move them up to 64-bit XP ?  And for that matter, why is their box on the company network box not inexpensive hardware running linux without Microsoft Outlook? Or were you in the cloud on that one?

;-)

* But aren't most of the client employees contacting your Help Desk also still running XP ?