Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more

Re:Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calen... by jph on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @05:01PM (#5746805)

Zoho provides good email, calendar, and many of additional apps for business such as CRM, invoices, etc.

My teammates chose Zoho for a company-wide 500-person setup with email, calendar, wiki, project, etc. and are very pleased with it.

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Re:Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calen... by SonicSoul on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @05:47PM (#5747132)

I've used their docs for years.. but found them buggy. For example bigger documents formatting would just start acting in a weird way (where i just couldn't set the text size correctly anymore).. copy/paste wasn't consistent.. wasn't crazy how regular browser shortcuts were overridden .. mobile app was locking.. i do command them for coming out with a great free product ahead of the the competition, but it does feel like Google leapfrogged them as far as UX and multi-platform support.

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Re:Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calen... by BoyWizard on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @06:31PM (#5747454)

I used Zoho for a while in the place of Google Apps, and migrated back to Google Apps after about 9 months as I absolutely hated Zoho Mail. Webmail interface was awful, and it didn't play nicely with the POP client on Android.

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Re:Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calen... by nkorth on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @07:16AM (#5750014)

Yeah, I also noticed that POP doesn't work with Zoho on my Nexus. I switched to IMAP and it works fine.

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Re:Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calen... by kenkinder on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @06:06PM (#5747243)

I seem to recall it not offering things like CalDav and CardDav.

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