Benioff Laughs Off Salesforce’s Looming Rivals

SAN FRANCISCO — Salesforce.com is putting more of its money where its mouth is, preparing to more than double its datacenter footprint as it competes with enterprise software giants like Oracle, SAP and Microsoft.
But it was that mouth that stole the show yesterday at Dreamforce 2008, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendor’s annual user conference.
Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s [...]

Salesforce Intros Force.com for Google App Engine

In a move that will open up new vistas for application developers, Salesforce.com, which now styles itself the enterprise cloud computing company, today expanded its global strategic alliance with Google.
The on-demand CRM firm has announced the availability of its Force.com platform as a service (PaaS) for the Google App Engine application development platform, which lets [...]