Chromebooks Outsold Macbooks in the US by a Factor of Five in 2013

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.

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