Old line business models and the new Internet can't cohabitate, claims the guy who had a chance to sell Zoho to Salesforce's Marc Benioff.
Something in the numbers for Salesforce made Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu unimpressed with the announcement of a That imbalance of selling to research makes Salesforce's Google Apps deal look like a doomed prospect to Vembu. Benioff offered to acquire Zoho, a prospect that held no appeal for Vembu. "I told him there is just no cultural fit between our companies and such an acquisition would be miserable for both parties," said Vembu, who thinks Benioff is stuck in the 1990s in thinking of software and business models. For similar reasons, Vembu thinks Google Apps integrating into Salesforce won't be a "durable" business model. Vembu also mentioned Google as Zoho's principal competitor, a position we think may be a one-sided thought on the Zoho CEO's part. Zoho, after all, does not compete on paid search ads, Google's main revenue source. Google could fold up its Apps business tomorrow, and not impact the bottom line in any appreciable manner.Google, Salesforce Deal Doomed? Zoho Says So
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