I’ve been digging Google Docs for some time now. Google Docs is an awesome free online alternative for Office and allows you to construct documents, spreadsheets and presentations online, easily collaborate on those documents, and export to an Office readable format. All good.

However, I recently started playing with Zoho Suite and I’m convinced that it is head and shoulders above Google Docs in terms of features and usability. Zoho (still all web based and free) has the spreadsheet, document and presentation tools, but further includes a whole bunch of other stuff. Here’s a rundown on what’s included…

Zoho Writer
Zoho Sheet
Zoho Show
Zoho Meeting
Zoho Notebook
Zoho DB & Reports
Zoho Planner
Zoho CRM
Zoho Creator
Zoho Wiki
Zoho Chat
Zoho Mail
Zoho Business
Zoho Polls

Wow! Talk about making a great run at competing with Google’s dominance in the web app market - and doing a good job at it. But wait! That’s not all. They seem to have a series of services and browser plugins available too (beyond those mentioed above). Some of these are free, some have a subscription level that expands the feature set available. I can tell you that I will defiantely be using Zoho in 2008!

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