Zoho: on a roll and not looking back

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Zoho: on a roll and not looking back

by Victor Agreda, Jr. Sep 4th 2008

As usual, TechCrunch makes a good point about Zoho calling their offerings "still a bit all over the place." But the fact that Zoho now has over one million users and just launched Zoho Docs bodes well for the company (and the still-nascent online business suite business at large). Zoho Docs integrates Writer, Sheet and Show, allows some version controls, more organization features and access control lists. That's a powerful set of glue tying some already-useful apps together. Now we'll have to see if they continue to grow beyond their core users and make real traction in the business space. With Office Live Workspace and Google Docs + Chrome powerhouses coming on strong in Q4, it'll be one heck of a battle.

Previous coverage of Zoho:

The launch of Zoho DB.
Zoho's iPhone-tuned set of pages (we'll give them a full review soon).
Zoho did DocX before some others, and it works well.
Did you know you can export PPT, PDF, ODP files and send to Picasa and Flickr?
It was only a week or so ago that they released Zoho Share, which allows you to embed docs on a page.

And here's how you can log in to Zoho with your Google Apps account.

Tags: cloud-suite, google-docs, office, office-live-workspace, office-suite, zoho

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

ben said 9:49PM on 11-19-2008

why not try Hibernater, it can bring my work anywhere, using existing applications such as ms office...

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