Chromebooks Outsold Macbooks in the US by a Factor of Five in 2013 (qz.com)

how is chromebooks for developers? Can it handle stuff like Eclipse?

The factor of five applies to commercial sales to businesses and schools and such. I suspect a large fraction of Macbooks (and all Apple products) are consumer sales.

Here are my what-can-chromebooks-do questions:

1. What kind of VPN connectivity is there? Cisco? Sonicwall? PPP? Ipsec?

2. What kind of remote connection software runs? I believe ssh is available. How about VNC? How about NX?

I could make a Chromebook work if I could connect to work and run ssh in a terminal as well as a graphical VNC client.