Zoho, the Next Big Thing
I’ve been watching Zoho for a few months now after I found out about their Creator product which allows you to create online applications in minutes.
About a week ago they announced their Virtual Office suite which packages email, links, tasks, documents, calendar, and group collaboration and document sharing into one suite. It works with your existing email account and it worked fine with my Gmail account, my work’s exchange server (via IMAP) and my own Linux mail server.
It is available as a hosted or on-premise version and can be installed on either Linux or Windows as the backend server.
I have tested both platforms and it installed easily on Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux without any problems.
The document storage is awesome and I was able to upload a 45 MB file across the internet without any problems. (broadband connection both ways)
It defaults to port 8080 on your server for serving the application as an interactive webpage (AJAX complete of course). The port can be configured/changed at your will.
I have not seen this kind of integration in any product to date, and the pricing is outstanding (free for up to 10 users and very reasonable after that).
I have been using Zoho Virtual Office now for about 4 days and I think it will pass the 10 day software test that gets something into my daily habit for good. It has really helped organize my day-to-day activities and I can’t see how I lived without it before.
Thanks Zoho for another great product!
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