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Web-based Office competitors have been underwhelming time and the trends are on their side. google docs shows the possibility. once web systems evolve to bette
by cypress-hill 18y ago
Web-based Office competitors have been underwhelming
time and the trends are on their side. google docs shows the possibility. once web systems evolve to better handle these type of apps, the advantage will play to them more and more
- mattmaroon 18y agoYeah, that's what everyone's been saying for about 3 years now. It's what a lot of people say about every technology, including the 99% that don't catch on. It's so cliche as to be meaningless. I'm not sure what you mean by "web systems", but if you mean browsers/standards they're moving at far too slow pace to assume any impact at all on anything ever. And even if they advance, there's a lag until people adopt them. A large percentage of people still use IE6, so any business model built on "web systems" unavailable until IE9 is so far off as to be not worth discussing.
- cypress-hill 18y agoYeah, that's what everyone's been saying for about 3 years now. It's what a lot of people say about every technology, including the 99% that don't catch on. It's so cliche as to be meaningless. its not a cliche. people are making real money. microsoft should be concerned
- mattmaroon 18y agoThe only people making real money off of web-based Office products are the founders who sold their startups to Google or Adobe.
- sutro 18y agoNot true. Zoho is cleaning up.
- mattmaroon 18y agoSource?
- sutro 18y ago$40m/yr revenue, $1m/month profit, and 100% bootstrapped as of 5 1/2 months ago when this article was written: http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/02/22/mitra-zoho-india-tech-inter-cx_sm_0222mitra.html http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/02/22/mitra-zoho-india... It's probably doing even better today.