Which is the best internet company?
October 13, 2007 by Balaji
I have always had this question in my mind, Which is the best internet company in the world? Most people would obviously say GOOGLE.
While Google is rocking with its innovative technology and acquiring startups, many other companies with other business strategies are also venturing into this multibillion dollar industry. Google came up with its online software as a service (Google Docs) soon after companies like ZOHO. Now, we see that many other companies which were nowhere near this industry started penetrating into this market with acquisitions. I am talking about companies like Adobe and Microsoft.
I understand why Microsoft ventured into this market. Microsoft has a fear that they might face some losses due to the developing market share of Google’s online office suite. For those who are not aware of Microsoft’s online office suite initiative, click here.
Do you have any guesses on why and how did Adobe get into this business? Let me first tell you how did they get into this business, Adobe recently actuired a Virtual Ubiquity which made the online office productivity tool GetBuzzWord. I guess the only reason why Adobe wanted to get into this business would be that they also wanted to be a part of internet business race. Adobe all these days was only selling licenses and softwares to companies to make their own art. There were no free services earlier, now there are whole bunch of them in Beta stage or coming up. You may check Adobe Labs to know the list of their products.
I need to talk something about ZOHO before I complete talking about this subject. While all these companies are in their initial stage of the race, ZOHO is many steps ahead with a whole bunch of softwares already available as service. Make sure to check that too….
Just to let you know, Yahoo also is there in this race with its recent acquision of Zimbra. I am not sure how this thing works.
I have worked on ZOHO, Google Docs and GetBuzzWord and all three are good in a different way and all of them have their own drawbacks. You may also try and comment on which one is good.
Disclaimer: I write this with the information I got from the internet and might be incorrect. Please forgive me incase if that is the case.
