Zoho working on building its own OS for laptops

Zoho is working on a few fundamental technology projects including its own OS and server systems, which will begin to go live in the next 5 years

Zoho working on building its own OS for laptops

Zoho is working on a few fundamental technology projects including its own Operating System (OS) and server systems, which will begin to go live in the next 5 years, Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu said on Friday (21st July 2023).

Many of Zoho’s experimental projects are taking shape, and the company is beginning to track metrics around these, he added.

These include Zoho’s own OS for laptops based on the Linux technology, which is set to launch as early as in one year's time. “The usability of the OS will be the key, and Zoho is investing heavily on offering a fresh new take on customer usability,” he said.

The software-as-a-service (SaaS) major is also working on building data centre hardware given that data centre related costs are among the largest for tech companies today.

“The idea is to reduce the percentage of revenue we spend in our data centre operations by building these server systems ourselves,” Vembu said. Zoho also recently launched its own privacy-centric web browser Ulaa.

“By 2030, we want Zoho to be among the top five technology companies in the world. For all of our Indian talent we haven’t produced an Indian champion company (at the global level),” he added.

Vembu was speaking at the Chief Information Officers (CIO) Meet 2023 organised by Zoho group company ManageEngine. CIO Meet hosted members of the CIO Klub, a community of CIOs, from their Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad and Kerala chapters.

Privately-owned and bootstrapped Zoho crossed the $1 billion global revenue mark in 2021 and its last known valuation is at around $5 billion today.

Speaking of the hype around Artificial Intelligence (AI), the tech entrepreneur said that putting together a good LLM (large language model) is at least a $50 million bet given the cost and availability of GPUs (graphics processing units).

The usage of ChatGPT and other GPTs is waning and the hype cycle around AI has peaked, Vembu said. Acknowledging the benefit of AI in areas like basic programming and building low-code/no-code applications, Vembu emphasised that job roles may change but “humans still matter more”..

-- Economictimes

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