Posts Tagged ‘ Force.com ’

I Wonder What Benioff is Thinking about Google’s Apps Marketplace?

The march of the app stores continues, but this time for the enterprise, not the smartphone.  Earlier this week Google launched their Apps Marketplace to much fanfare with about 50 apps including Intuit, Concur, TripIt and Zoho and reportedly bigger players like Netsuite are on the way.  The App Marketplace provides very tight coupling with [ READ MORE ]

Will the Force.com VAR Program Move the Needle?

I don’t think so.  At first when I saw the story on TechCrunch I thought there was going to be an exciting announcement — something that was going to help open up the Force.com platform in a way that would drive greater adoption of what’s probably the most mature Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering out there.  But [ READ MORE ]

How to Select a Cloud Provider

Geva Perry is starting a series called “The Purpose-Driven Cloud” where it appears that he’s trying to address the aforementioned question by evaluating a number of different attributes that are all technology-centric.  It looks like it should be a worthwhile discussion, although it’s mostly written from a developer’s point of view. But I think his angle [ READ MORE ]

Microsoft Projects Big Things for Azure

According to a recent post by SD Times’ David Worthington, the Azure team is projecting that 50,000 applications will reside in its cloud within three years.  Did anyone expect something different? Everything at Microsoft is big, and if it can’t be big, it can’t be at Microsoft.  The company has over 10 products that have annual [ READ MORE ]

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