Editor’s note : This guest post is written by Marc Benioff , chairman and CEO of salesforce.com .

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The Facebook Imperative Cannot Be Stopped

CA Identity Manager can now be used to automate processes, such as provisioning and de-provisioning user access, for Salesforce.com’s sales forecasting application.

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CA Extends Identity Management to Salesforce.Com Apps

Members of the standards body include Novell, Microsoft, Dell, Rackspace, Qualys, HP, Intel, Cisco, McAfee, Salesforce.com, and Symantec.

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Cloud Security Alliance To Tackle Cloud Standards

This guest post is written by Marc Benioff , chairman and CEO of salesforce.com . I quit my job at Oracle in 1999 because I couldn’t stop thinking about a simple question: “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Amazon.com?” Why couldn’t applications be run from a simple website, without software or hardware to install, and pricy consultants to hire? Why couldn’t we just compute in the Internet, or the cloud, and get away from the data center and all its complexity

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The Facebook Imperative

I remember when I first started programming in Java many years ago. I used to walk the isles of my local bookstore (remember those brick and mortar things we all used to visit?). The shelves were filled with books on C, a few smatterings of web design, and of course, the trusty O’Reilly In a Nutshell books; but alas, there were no Java books.

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Development with the Force.com Platform

For website application developers, getting any sort of connection to telephones can be a show-stopper. Wireless carriers, which are enormous bureaucracies, can take forever to approve and support the connection. Twilio was founded in 2007 to solve that problem at an affordable price

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Twilio adds SMS text support to its phone-to-Web API

BlueKiwi , a French startup that helps companies manage customer conversations, says it’s starting a big push into the US market. As part of that effort, it’s announcing new pricing that could be hard to resist — companies can build a BlueKiwi-powered community for free.

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BlueKiwi lets companies build a community for free

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

The Web 2.0 world may seem at times like a glamorous, hip place.

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Forget the Web 2.0 Glamour – the Money’s in the Enterprise