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Salesforce.com attacks Microsoft, SAP

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has accused SAP of failing to understand cloud computing and slammed Microsoft's internet-based operating system, Azure. Read more »

Dreamforce: Benioff preaches cloud computing gospel, Facebook

After a decade as the chief evangelist in the wilderness of software as a service, which has morphed into cloud computing, Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff is having a more challenging time coming up with groundbreaking industry disruptions. Read more »

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Salesforce.com extends cloud computing service

Salesforce.com is expanding its cloud computing service with a new option that lets customers more easily build external websites. Read more »

Azure manages to avoid a Hailstorm of criticism

Microsoft's Hailstorm prompted an avalanche of criticism when it was proposed seven years ago, but developers seem to have few qualms with Windows Azure, which embraces many of the same notions. Read more »

Microsoft launches Windows Azure

Microsoft has announced a version of Windows that runs over the internet from inside Microsoft's own datacentres. Read more »

Governments urged to lay foundation for SaaS

The best guardians of the underlying architecture are governments, a Salesforce.com executive said. Read more »

BT bets on open development

BT, long considered a risk-taker in the telecommunications market, has laid a US$105 million bet to open its network to application developers in the hopes of creating innovative voice services. But will other phone companies take a similar gamble? Read more »

Google feels the Force with Salesforce deal

Today Salesforce.com announced a "global strategic alliance" (also known as a partnership) with Google, introducing a new integration point, Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs. Read more »

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Google's enterprise vision is in the cloud

Google sees all enterprise trends pointing toward cloud computing, and it wants a piece of the action. Read more »

Cloudbusting: Can you fight Google's million servers?

While "cloud computing" is some way from being an enterprise reality, IT managers need to start planning now if they want to avoid being ordered by their bosses to implement technology from Google and close down their own datacentres, a Gartner analyst has warned. Read more »

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Waiting for the OpenSocial hammer to drop

Veteran developer Marc Canter warns industry politics could stymie push to give social network users more control over data. Read more »

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Apex Code: Developing natively in the cloud

Peter Coffee, director of platform research, Salesforce.com discusses Apex code -- the language for taking advantage of the Force.com platform. Read more »

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Force.com: A first step into a larger world

We sat down with Peter Coffee, director of platform research, Salesforce.com to discuss how developers can take advantage of the Force.com platform. Read more »

Deploying with AppExchange

The hardest part of creating a successful software application is often not the coding -- it's getting that product out to its intended market. Read more »

Web 2.0 meets the enterprise

Long set up like a gated community, the enterprise software industry is quickly gaining a populist streak. Read more »

What if? an alternative history of tech

Michael Kanellos imagines a world where Apple licenced the Mac and wrestling is a corporate sport. Read more »

Disruptions in the software fabric

COMMENTARY -- According to a recent Gartner report, companies such as Oracle, SAP and Microsoft need to deliver more modular, bite-sized chunks of functionality, which would allow customers to update systems with more flexibility and speed. It's not exactly a new revelation. Read more »

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Salesforce.com launches Sites

At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, announced the company's latest venture. With Force.com Sites, customers can build, host, and allow individual users to customize a public Web page using Force.com technologies. Along with Parker Harris, Salesforce co-founder and executive vice president of technology, he demos the way New Jersey Transit uses Sites to keep their riders updated--even on the go with iPhones or Blackberrys. Read more »

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Why should developers use LINQ?

Adam Cogan talks about why LINQ functionality is useful to developers. Read more »

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Salesforce.com apps for the Apple iPhone

At Apple's official launch of the iPhone software development kit, Chuck Dietrich, Salesforce.com vice president of mobile, demos new business software on the device. The tools let sales representatives manage applications such as analytics and business intelligence tools on the go. The Apple event took place at company headquarters in California. Read more »

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Apex Code: Developing natively in the cloud

Peter Coffee, director of platform research, Salesforce.com discusses Apex code -- the language for taking advantage of the Force.com platform. Read more »

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Force.com: A first step into a larger world

We sat down with Peter Coffee, director of platform research, Salesforce.com to discuss how developers can take advantage of the Force.com platform. Read more »

Blog (8)

The Best of Ballmer

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- In this week's Roundup we cover Steve Ballmer's talk at the Microsoft's Power to Developers event in Sydney, Saleforce's annual Dreamforce conference and more. Read more »

Google to allow third party code in Gmail?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- According to executives from the company, Google are preparing to open Gmail to developers outside the Googleplex labs. Read more »

Salesforce's new AIR toolkit

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Following the announcement that Salesforce will provide a free toolkit for Adobe Flex and AIR development on its Force.com platform, I spoke to the company’s Doug Farber, the Vice President of Operations, Asia Pacific about its functionality and other issues surrounding the toolkit. Read more »

Warning: ads to get more annoying

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The addition of high definition video and VoIP within Flash will allows developers to create new user experiences and it's coming to a banner ad near you in all its H.264 and vocal glory. Read more »

Conference time goes Hollywood

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Conference season hit a high this week with three major conferences underway. Read more »

Salesforce.com flexes its on-demand platform.

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Salesforce.com has included Adobe Flex functionality to it's Apex platform. The move means that developers using salesforce.com's Apex platform can now deploy rich Internet applications using the Flex toolkit. Read more »

Mercantile Mashups

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Making mashups for a living is a web developers dream - it may be closer than you think. Read more »

Web - the next frontier... again

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- Web is making a comeback. But are developers ready? Read more »

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