Comments on: The Whole ‘Online Office’ Thing

By: Avatar

Avatar — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:16:00 +0000

yes, 2010 should be more than enough for when we start seeing this going truly mainstream and working well.

On Sabeer, yeah, he want to make lightning strike a second time.

lets see what happens.⌘

By: Aditya

Aditya — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:59:00 +0000

2010? That's being 'very' optimistic! You really think any of those five points (except for 1 and 3) will come to exist in a way which is usable? I really doubt it, but let's see.

As far as being bought, Sabeer Bhatia knows his game pretty well. He has dealt with Microsoft before. If you read his account of the Hotmail sale, you'll see that he had it all planned out.

I think he's taking the same approach. Going after the thing Microsoft lacks. The best way at the moment to get their attention would be to 'be' in their face. Microsoft won't sue them unless they're confident about their 'own' product.

This should be fun ;)⌘

By: Avatar

Avatar — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:47:00 +0000

i am very interested in the developments of the online Office suite so i have tried pretty much every single option.

in terms of features and use Zoho wins out easily, in terms of design and approach? i think Buzzword made in flex and recently bought by adobe does shows what and how Live documents could work.

Google Docs is the weakest from the top 3 examples. i am really surprised that Google didn't bought Zoho already, but maybe the fact that they would have to pay a 10x valuation price of zoho (1-1.5billion) could be a deterrent when they already have invested over 3 billions developing the google docs suite the past 2 years along everything they have expended overall.

MS knows what they are doing, the office live marketplace. i remember the early concepts of what the live desk was going to be so i get an idea of where they are going with it.

and they are working on sharedview/foldershare integrations for it and having it running on a sharepoint server, already give some food for thought.

I see Live Documents as a Frontal Offer to MS, they are doing too many "in your Face" things so Microsoft cannot ignore them and either decides sue them or buy them.

I think they got a good chance of getting bought, it is always a gamble.

now on a online office actually working out? it will but not now.

You need 5 factors for that happen:

cheap powerful portable devices
cheap/free and fast global internet access
a great and easy to work with software tech evolved enough to do the job cross platform and cross medium
actual cloud computing
Huge Data centers that can provide the unlimited bandwith and storage power

We don't got any of those points covered in a global scale, so i think we will not start seeing it really work out until 2010.