Larry Ellison may be remembered as the one who steered clear of the “folly” that is cloud computing. Or he may be remembered for ignoring the real and considerable impacts that the cloud brings.
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Is Oracle Really Killing the Sun Open Cloud?
So, you have a great idea. You want to move your vision from whiteboard to web host, but the trade-offs (resources, time, money) make it difficult to decide what to spend your hard earned capital on
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Are you the New Twitter? Services to Help Scale your Business
Spring ’10 is just around the corner, with many great new features . One of the Apex Code enhancements which caught my attention was the limits on the number of items a collection can hold has been removed
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Apex Code Enhancements and Collections best practices
Apisphere , provider of a platform that powers mobile applications to serve content based on where you are geographically, has raised $4.58 million in equity, according to a filing with the SEC . Based in Redwood City, the company provides a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook and for Salesforce.com’s customer relations management system.
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Apisphere channels $4.6M to serve location-based mobile apps
SaaS-delivered IT Service Management (ITSM) is rapidly on the rise, creating complications for its on-premise counterparts.
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Ovum: The Continued Rise of the SaaS Model for IT Services
According to data released earlier this month by the US Census, the growth of the nation’s software and IT tech sectors dramatically slowed in 2008 – the first such drop since the dot-com crash. Overall, revenue still grew, just at a slower rate – 7.7% – than in 2007 when growth hit 13.2%. The 2008 numbers ( PDF ) are the agency’s most current figures, and they reveal an industry that earned significantly less on design and development work than it did just a year before
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US Tech Sector Growth Slowed Significantly in 2008
IDC reported today that the majority of business workers use the social Web at least once a week. Social computing and the cloud are becoming equally integral in the enterprise.
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Why Social Enterprise and Cloud Computing Go Hand in Hand
Column about Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff’s strategy for pushing his company’s cloud-computing approach more deeply into enterprises with Chatter, professional services, and the simplicity that the cloud can offer.
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Global CIO: Salesforce.com CEO Benioff On IT Scams And Cloud Power
It pains me, truly, to see a cloud platform being praised for its resemblance to what developers already know. If I could say, “already know and love,” that would be another thing — but what about platforms that developers merely know and tolerate? My next live webinar will look at ways to move to a higher level.
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Coming to You Live — but not from Stockholm
If you are anything like me and spend way too much time in the twitterverse tracking the pulse of what ever it is you are interested (hopefully something more than checking out what Ashton Kutcher had for breakfast this morning!) you may noticed the great new(ish) feature to organize tweets based on interest, called Lists . I put together a very quick Salesforce News related lists which you may find useful to follow to keep up to date with the various Salesforce related tweets.
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Using Twitter Lists to stay current on Force.com news
