Will MS Office Or Oracle Be Slaughtered First By TheCloud?

Firefox, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.

I was alerted to the release of a new version of Zoho Writer that supports offline capabilities, via Google Gears. They had a version until today that only allowed read-only access to documents offline; today’s release supports offline editing and sync. But I couldn’t install the Google Gears add-on for Firefox, and it is incompatible with Safari.

So I guess it works…. Have to wait for someone in this value chain to fix things. Maybe I will have to go back to an earlier release of Firefox, and drop the beta 3.0b1.

Sigh. Demonstrates the issues with many moving parts, where Zoho relies on Google Gears: Zoho can’t just release a new version of Gears, since it’s out of their control, and Google could care less, really, about Zoho, who is a competitor.