I agree - I don't think I want Basecamp. But I don't need Zoho either. My point was that Basecamp is missing a few (very small) features that would take it from "Ok" to "Awesome". Even though this may be against much of the 37 signals philosophy of keeping things simple and lean.

I thought Basecamp is also designed to solve the distributed project management problem in a simple, easy way. I like the appoach, but the Deadline/Time tracking doesn't work for me in it's current implementation.