Google will be having the upper hand initially but one also needs to see how serious it is about that. Open Social is a good idea but I doubt its rate of adoption. It is like a silver bullet to all the various APIs that each social networking site has. But as we know, there is no social bullet.

Zoho as of now is working on API availability across its services. This is a big positive step. This will ensure that developers are able to get their data out of the Zoho platform to integrate else where. This also will mean that Open Social too will be providing handles to the Zoho APIs one way or the other and that will only increase Zohos credibility.

It will be interesting these changes.

The result is going to be out in another 7 months or so when Zoho will have its business plan figured and would have gone commercial with Zoho Business.

Moreover, ZOHO is now actively pushing Zoho CRM. You can see the Google Ads that are coming out (Pretty ironic that Zoho is using Google Ads to campaign itself, nah?).

People think it is a David Vs Goliath story. But I do not think so anymore.
One really has to question the core competency of Google and that of the Zoho folks.
Google is as of now basically a 1-trick pony with the Search feature. The rest are mere addendums which are result of some cerebral guy sitting and churning out his fantasy. It is no doubt good but how practical and commercially viable will these offerings be.

Right now, Google is going progressing from Search to Wireless to 3G to Underwears. But what is it that we know Google for – Search. So there you go.

Now apply the same question to Zoho. What do you know Zoho for? Coherent Online Web Applications.
These are 2 distinct fields.

I regret the delay in responding. I had taken some time off to empty my brain.

What do you think ?

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