Comments on: Google docs finally goes offline – Zoho mail I’m waiting for you!

By: kenny

kenny — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:47:09 +0000

i think using the original ms office is better, more features and better UI. i using hibernater (hibernater.com) to easily save and resume my work.

By: Corona

Corona — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:01:47 +0000

Good news!

Zoho Mail is now available and its very promising!

mail.zoho.com

By: jordan

jordan — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:44:51 +0000

WHAT ABOUt adobe air???

By: Khurram Samad

Khurram Samad — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:56:52 +0000

Hi
We are planning to experiment with your idea. I am starting off with Zoho Planner, rebuilt using Zoho API and Adobe Air.

– Khurram

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:38:44 +0000

Hosted Zoho mail, cool, I would be the first person to try it. :D

By: Sridhar Vembu

Sridhar Vembu — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:18:46 +0000

Thanks for asking. We will provide you an account within the next 2 weeks. We are getting closer.

I have explained elsewhere what took us so long: we had originally written Zoho VO/Mail as a downloaded product (our software product company legacy!). The architectural assumptions you make on a software product are quite different from those in a web service – it is not merely slapping on a Web GUI. We had to essentially rebuild the server components to make it fit the web service goal. We are over that big hump.

By: Vamsee

Vamsee — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:05:54 +0000

Probably because doing hosted mail service is not an easy thing to do. Rest of the Zoho office is pure javascript, databases and related technology. Mail, is a different game altogether. Zoho needs to have world-class infrastructure, and great sysadmins to design this setup and run it for them. And if you add all the problems with spam, you’re not looking at a simple problem. If Zoho can pull it off though, it will be just great.