its a nice idea and all, but shouldn't zoho wait until it weathers this storm before coming out and saying "let's all be friends".
I'm sorry, but if given a choice between a Microsoft product and a zoho product, pretty much everyone will go for the microsoft product(Everyone has used MS Office). The only exceptions are the techies who have a hard on for hating microsoft.
All this crap about being flexible and innovative, is just that crap. Any feature you come up with, can be easily copied. And Microsoft has one little thing going for it, that Zoho doesn't...they don't have to make a profit.
But the whole point of the article, and I entirely agree, is that you don't have to win anything. If Zoho ends up with 10% paying share of the online office business, that's more than enough for them to keep 350 people employed and give their customers a more reactive platform that Microsoft - not everybody needs it, but those who do will appreciate it and keep paying.
I agree that no business has been killed by fair competition. There are some cases where competition is not fair.
I'm sorry, but if given a choice between a Microsoft product and a zoho product, pretty much everyone will go for the microsoft product(Everyone has used MS Office). The only exceptions are the techies who have a hard on for hating microsoft.
All this crap about being flexible and innovative, is just that crap. Any feature you come up with, can be easily copied. And Microsoft has one little thing going for it, that Zoho doesn't...they don't have to make a profit.