John Conroy @ CMSWire on Zoho

CMSWire's John Conroy has an interesting take on Zoho and our parent company AdventNet, in an article titled 'Why Web Startups Work Better as Divisions of Larger Companies'. Excerpts :

Startups in the Web applications arena can take a lot of lessons from Zoho: its extremely rapid development cycle, its attitude to monetization and to PR. And, by no means least, the way it scaled. And this latter element owes a lot to the fact that Zoho does not stand alone.

Zoho is a division of AdventNet, a multi-focus software developer which sells OEM, other database software and a multitide of enterprise products, and has been kicking around the scene since the mid-nineties. Crucial in Zoho’s success has been the presence of the parent company, which can pump manpower and financial resources into a blossoming start-up to mitigate against exploding servers, user downtime, and buggy applications. And hopefully do it as quickly as necessary, which today, for any Web service, means NOW.

Thanks to John & CMSWire.