They know their onions at the Crunchies, alright. From 2007's plentiful harvest of genuinely inspiring startups, Zoho was picked as the 'Best Enterprise Startup' of the year. If you're already a user, this is not likely to surprise you at all.
We at CMSWire had the chance to speak with Zoho evangelist Raju Vegesna and he gave us the full organizational down-low: vision, growth, customers, future, past and present. And, of course, Google.
Our conversation was long and wide-ranging; a verbatim transcript would take you, dear reader, all morning to read. So it's been distilled so that you can get a feel for Zoho from top to bottom without having to take a half-day.
Programming and software development is a thankless task, and you need all the help you can get, right?
Rubbish. You get paid a fortune and can stroll in at midday in a ZZ Top beard and pyjamas, and nobody in a suit ever talks to you because they have no idea what you actually do.
What the suits should do, of course, is ship you all off to a military barber for a #1, and then off to Qatar for six weeks of basic military training. That'd take the wind out of your sails. And while you're at it, stop off in Hong Kong on the way back for some tailored suits. It wouldn't kill you to look respectable once in a while.
Life is far too easy for you developers. Unfortunately, if you are in the business of coding for the Vignette suite of Enterprise CMS (and other) products, it's just gotten even easier.
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