Moving the Point of Assembly
Kudos to Zoho. Their efforts remind me of the
early days of the Microsoft Productivity
Environment where core MSOffice editors expanded
their reach through DDE, OLE, rich copy/paste,
data binding, merged content and data, VBA
scripting and the infamous recorder, and a
developer API that meshed platform and
productivity apps so deeply into end user
information that the binding of business processes
to the MOPE is proving near impossible to break.
Even for years after the fact.
A business ecosystem for client/server was born
back in the early 90's, with Microsoft continuing
on to own entirely the client side of the
equation.