Well, its three weeks since we officially launched Zoho Marketplace. We are glad to see Marketplace being active almost on all days, can see new projects being posted even on the weekends and developers responding to it.

Here is the stats of Zoho Marketplace (as on 22nd Oct):

• No. of Application Installs : 4125
• No. of Apps Published : 69
• Most Installed App : Project Management Plus by Aparna S, (no. of Installs - 855)
• No. Projects Posted by the Users : 55

But wait! That’s not all we have to share with you.

Have an interesting success story to share. Poul Tang, a consultant posted his requirement at the Marketplace and recieved solution from Pascal in few days. Well, Pascal Veilleux is the featured Zoho Creator Partner.

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We’ve scheduled a maintenance for Zoho Creator from Friday Sep 19th, 23:00 hrs –to– Saturday Sep 20th, 03:00 hrs PDT. Friday Sep 26th, 23:00 hrs –to– Saturday Sep 27th, 03:00 hrs PDT. During this period access to Zoho Creator will not be available.

We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause. We appreciate your patience in this regard.

UPDATE: The scheduled maintenance has been postponed to Sep 26th 2008 as we found some unforeseen errors at the last minute.  Kindly excuse for the inconvenience caused.

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After wrapping up Suganya’s interview, Pete Thomas sent me an email saying that he wants to make this a series of interviews with some more guys at Zoho Creator. As we team had a good time pulling Suganya’s legs after reading her interview, we decided it’s Sriram’s turn now to face the music! Get ready, Sriram

Jokes apart, Sriram is Zoho Creator’s Lead Architect. A very cool and composed guy, he handles Zoho Creator’s Infrastructure, Security, Caching Architecture, Performance and more. Pete has already posted some topics which Sriram will be answering.

So all you Zoho Creator users there, if you have any questions in these topics, please feel free to post your questions at Land of ZC and get to know from Sriram what it means to manage and maintain such a user-friendly beast.

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K. Hovnanian® Homes™ is a nationally recognized homebuilder that has been committed to excellence since 1959. The company started as a family-owned business, and through well-defined acquisition efforts, has expanded over the years to become a family of homebuilders with localized expertise in numerous markets throughout the United States.

Getting to the point, this below picture demonstrates how K. Hovnanian® Homes™ operated their business on a daily basis ie., collecting the home listing information of various parts of the state from their sales representatives and publishing this information onto their corporate website (www.khov.com).

And after putting in much effort and time, the team was unable to provide consistent, accurate and real-time information for their customers when they requested them for.

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