ThinkFree Reaches 1 Million Hosted Documents
Web Office suite provider ThinkFree has announced it has hit the 1 Million mark in number of hosted documents, up from 654,000 in late February when we last reported ThinkFree's usage. Their community uploads between 60,000 to 80,000 documents per month and currently ThinkFree has 335,000 users, up from the 250,000 in February.
ThinkFree also stated in their blog post that they are the number 2 Web Office suite provider, behind Google Apps. They wrote:
"GD&S is a great lightweight tool, but having the best MS Compatibility and the highest level of feature functionality of any online offie suite has propelled us into the second spot."
ThinkFree's main startup competitor Zoho also recently announced user numbers, stating that they have over 300K users. The current figure is around 310k, according to a Zoho representative I checked with tonight.
Judging by the figures both companies provided, it seems that Zoho's growth rate is stronger. According to their blog post, Zoho took "12 months to get to the first 100K users, 6 months for the next 100K users and 4 months for the last 100K users." However it's great to see that both Web Office startups are experiencing high usage and growing well. While Google is the dominant player in this market, both ThinkFree and Zoho are an acquisition away from being major players in the office software market (e.g. Microsoft or Oracle might buy them).
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I have always been impressed by the online docs and spreadsheets that are offered by a number of places in the past year or so now. I wish they had these about 6 or 7 years ago when I was still in college and used Word and Excel a lot. However, I do not use either of these much more to date anyhow.
But if I had to use a lot of Office, I have come to the conclusion this is the way to go. No more having to have MS Office on your computer, which clears space and less crap running on it. Just fire up your web browser, type in the address and away you go. And lets not forget the biggest perk is that you do not having to worry about your computer taking a dump on you and stress out trying to recover your docs.
Posted by: Stephen | August 18, 2007 7:06 AM