Comments on: Zoho and Omnidrive Bring Seamless On/Offline Computing a Step Closer http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/01/22/zoho-and-omnidrive-bring-seamless-onoffline-computing-a-step-closer/ Connecting the dots ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:40:47 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Zoli Erdos http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/01/22/zoho-and-omnidrive-bring-seamless-onoffline-computing-a-step-closer/#comment-1155 Zoli Erdos Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:55:16 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/01/22/zoho-and-omnidrive-bring-seamless-onoffline-computing-a-step-closer/#comment-1155 Zoho is not in the storage business as such; in fact there was some speculation of a Zoho-drive and those planes are nixed now. While they certainly store your Zoho documents, they don't want your music, photo, video files, having to deal with sharing, frequent downloads ..etc - that's an entirely different business. Omnidrive, on the other hand is more than just online storage: amongst others they synchronize your online/offline files pretty well. This way you can have all your doc, xls, ppt both on and offline, and access them with Zoho when online, MS when off... As for wiki companies (btw, I'd not classify Zoho as such), I don't think users consider them as storage destinations. They naturally store your wiki content, and attachements to the wiki, but that's it. Btw, since you're an East Coast VC, you may want to check out Brainkeeper:-) Zoho is not in the storage business as such; in fact there was some speculation of a Zoho-drive and those planes are nixed now. While they certainly store your Zoho documents, they don’t want your music, photo, video files, having to deal with sharing, frequent downloads ..etc – that’s an entirely different business.

Omnidrive, on the other hand is more than just online storage: amongst others they synchronize your online/offline files pretty well. This way you can have all your doc, xls, ppt both on and offline, and access them with Zoho when online, MS when off…

As for wiki companies (btw, I’d not classify Zoho as such), I don’t think users consider them as storage destinations. They naturally store your wiki content, and attachements to the wiki, but that’s it.

Btw, since you’re an East Coast VC, you may want to check out Brainkeeper:-)

]]> By: ventureblogalist http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/01/22/zoho-and-omnidrive-bring-seamless-onoffline-computing-a-step-closer/#comment-1154 ventureblogalist Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:29:11 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/01/22/zoho-and-omnidrive-bring-seamless-onoffline-computing-a-step-closer/#comment-1154 what does omnidrive have that zoho doesnt? just thinking that zoho might start poaching customers through this partnership? what do most wiki companies do for storage when they own the customer acquisition? what does omnidrive have that zoho doesnt? just thinking that zoho might start poaching customers through this partnership? what do most wiki companies do for storage when they own the customer acquisition?

]]> By: Jason Yau http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/01/22/zoho-and-omnidrive-bring-seamless-onoffline-computing-a-step-closer/#comment-1153 Jason Yau Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:40:08 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/01/22/zoho-and-omnidrive-bring-seamless-onoffline-computing-a-step-closer/#comment-1153 Zoli, I think it's very good news to hear that some of the vendors are starting to work together to leverage each other. Given the broad array of products and features out there, there's definitely plenty of synergies to be gained from partnering up. That said, I think the folder/file tree format that OmniDrive offers is starting to get a bit dated. It's a great way to integrate with the desktop, but as a collaboration platform, it's sub-optimal. I don't expect it to disappear overnight, but I think some sort of hybrid wiki is a better solution to the collaboration problem. I just wrote a post on my <a href="http://www.longworthblog.com/2007/01/23/my-enterprise-20-wish-list/" rel="nofollow">Enterprise 2.0 wish list</a> that discusses further. Zoli,

I think it’s very good news to hear that some of the vendors are starting to work together to leverage each other. Given the broad array of products and features out there, there’s definitely plenty of synergies to be gained from partnering up.

That said, I think the folder/file tree format that OmniDrive offers is starting to get a bit dated. It’s a great way to integrate with the desktop, but as a collaboration platform, it’s sub-optimal. I don’t expect it to disappear overnight, but I think some sort of hybrid wiki is a better solution to the collaboration problem. I just wrote a post on my Enterprise 2.0 wish list that discusses further.

]]> By: Zoho Blogs http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/01/22/zoho-and-omnidrive-bring-seamless-onoffline-computing-a-step-closer/#comment-1156 Zoho Blogs Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:57:41 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/01/22/zoho-and-omnidrive-bring-seamless-onoffline-computing-a-step-closer/#comment-1156 <strong>OmniDrive becomes perfect with Zoho</strong> Early last year I talked about Shortcomings of existing online storage solutions where the primary issue was upload/download. Once you have your documents uploaded to online storage solutions, you have to download them to view/edit them. This defeated... OmniDrive becomes perfect with Zoho

Early last year I talked about Shortcomings of existing online storage solutions where the primary issue was upload/download. Once you have your documents uploaded to online storage solutions, you have to download them to view/edit them. This defeated…

]]> By: Dennis Howlett http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/01/22/zoho-and-omnidrive-bring-seamless-onoffline-computing-a-step-closer/#comment-1152 Dennis Howlett Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:02:49 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/01/22/zoho-and-omnidrive-bring-seamless-onoffline-computing-a-step-closer/#comment-1152 I do think the flash preview capability is a decent half way house. Therre will be plenty of documents you only wish to browse or read and anything that reduces time to access has to be good. But the ability to click through to the original for editing would be an excellent addition. I do think the flash preview capability is a decent half way house. Therre will be plenty of documents you only wish to browse or read and anything that reduces time to access has to be good. But the ability to click through to the original for editing would be an excellent addition.

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