Zoho, one of the challengers to Google’s online office crown – and a damn good one at that – has unleashed its wiki service, to go along with the whole raft of other services they provide. The editing functionality comes from Zoho Writer, so is very easy to use with full wysiwyf functionality.
TechCrunch covers the story:
Two things make this product stand out. The first is that the Wiki supports embedded data from other Zoho products. For example, a spreadsheet from Zoho Sheet can be embedded directly into the Wiki. Any changes to the spreadsheet, whether they are made in the Wiki or in Zoho Sheet, will be synced. The Wiki product also has a single sign in with other Zoho products.
Second, the entire Zoho suite of products is on the same overall architecture, making syncronization and new feature releases much easier between applications. Contrast that to Google’s suite, including two acquired products (Writely and JotSpot) and one mostly home-grown one (Spreadsheets). It will never be as homogenous as what Zoho has created.
I agree that Zoho is a great looking suite of applications and is probably the closest thing there is right now to a workable, integrated online office platform.
But is there room for a small fish in this pool full of giant sharks? It’s a shame to say so, but maybe Zoho’s eventual best hope of success will be to be bought up by a competitor to Google.
[tags]zoho, wiki, google, online office[/tags]
Dave:
Was’nt Google a small fish when MSN and Yahoo were sharks? 🙂 If we build excellent set of products with a customer focus, we beleive we can make a difference.
Raju – you’re absolutely right, of course. I sincerely hope you do and I’m sorry if that wasn’t clear from my post!