This could be a huge story: an online software provider decides to buy 40,000 licenses. This is the kind of story that propels a small company towards an IPO.
Webguild.com, a website with 73,000 unique visitors per month, put up an article that dumps on Google, saying that GE picked a competitor’s product.
But there are several glaring problems with this story.
I tried Zoho’s project software and found it having several nitpicky problems. I don’t like their simplistic help interface. I don’t like the way they write their English, which is too wordy and obtuse. Their software also loads slowly.
This article says GE picked Zoho’s software but it leaves out several critical details. The first is, if I was GE, I would not let my information stay offsite on Zoho’s servers. I would ask for a dedicated server onsite in my data center. So, is this what happened? If so, is this a new offering for Zoho targeting to the Fortune 500?
It also does not point out the biggest difference between Google’s offering and Zoho’s offering: price. Google’s products are FREE while Zoho charges money.
