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Cloud confusion

February 2, 2009 General

Irregular My ZDNet colleague and fellow Irregular Phil Wainewright is almost gushing in his enthusiasm for the latest IDC numbers indicating that the counter cyclical nature of on-demand/saas computing means that IDC has to uplift its predictions for saas uptake in 2009. I usually take analyst numbers with a sack of salt. They’re always wrong, [...]

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Has Zoho won the online productivity apps arms race?

September 23, 2008 General

If I am to believe my good friend Jeff Nolan then Zoho has won the office productivity arms race. Jeff attributes this to the tipping point ‘win’ of 400,000 GE seats. Jeff quotes from WebGuild where an un-named GE person allegedly says: A GE spokesperson who did not want to be identified said their decision [...]

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Zoho's serious move on Excel

April 28, 2008 General

I’ve written a brief review cum opinion piece about Zoho‘s announcement that it’s added limited support for Visual Basic macros and pivot tables to its spreadsheet service. I’ve also posed a question to Simon Hurst about this over at IT Counts (private registration, sorry) where I ask whether in his opinion these new additions represent [...]

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