With Microsoft and Salesforce.com locked in market and legal combat, the “open-source” (see update below) SugarCRM is quietly building its own empire. The company has landed over 6,000 customers with its focus on customization and openness.
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SugarCRM Rolls Out New Features as Competitors Pummel Each Other (Updated)
Microsoft announced at its Worldwide Partners Conference today that it will launch a CRM SaaS service and an app marketplace as parts of CRM 2011, itself a part of Microsoft Dynamics . CRM 2011, formerly codenamed CRM5, will be available for beta testing in September, starting with the online CRM service and Dynamics Marketplace. The announcement comes as Microsoft is embroiled in a patent battle with CRM competitor Salesforce.com , which has been offering a CRM SaaS and app marketplace for years.
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Echoing Salesforce.com, Microsoft Announces CRM SaaS and App Marketplace
As anyone who needs to creat e a commercial website knows, it is painful to deal with all the aspects of infrastructure, platform settings, setting the website, figuring out the page setup, linking the user management and authentication, setting up the payment system all on your own. Of course, this is where Sites development with Force.com comes in to h elp i n focusing on the app, and the needs of setting a professional website for e-commerce along with PayPal X Toolkit
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Building E-Commerce sites with Force.com
Like we promised, we have a raffle prize for all CDC participants who submitted their code to Code Share . After drawing names out of a hat we have a winner! Congratulations to Shamil Arsunukayev — he wins an iPad, just for sharing his code repository for his project, Chatter Live Chat. You can view the source code here
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Congratulations to the Developer Challenge Raffle winner!
A familiar character has entered the stage for Salesforce.com. Attorney David Boies is bringing his celebrated fame back again to take on Microsoft, the company he defeated ten years ago in the U.S. Justice Department’s landmark anti-trust case against the software giant.
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David Boies Beat Microsoft Once – Can He Do it Again For Salesforce.com?
I’ve with built or contributed to building many different toolkits here at salesforce.com. Toolkits are one of the ways that Developer Evangelism can really accelerate developer productivity on the Force.com platform.
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Force.com Toolkit for iOS – Adventures in Objective-C
Microsoft’s lawsuit against his company hasn’t cowed Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff, judging from his on-stage remarks today. Benioff spoke in San Jose, Calif. about Chatter, the company’s new social networking application for businesses
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Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff: Microsoft spat is ‘the greatest thing that’s ever happened’
As promised , the articles written to support the Build and Deploy A Free Cloud App track for todays Cloudforce are now live! Each article, designed to build upon the last tells the story of Forcefield Advertising, a fictitious advertising company which needs to track requests from their account executives for new Apple IPads. Chuck, Forcefield’s one-and-only IT guy, realizes that he can build a request tracking application using the Free Force.com Edition , and become the company superstar. Will Chuck succeed by delivering a live cloud app to up to 100 users for free and on time? Read the articles, and/or attend the sessions at this years Cloudforce/Developer Conference and find out! But wait……(I feel like the Ginzu knife commercial.) We don’t have just one article: As a special bonus you get two more best practices articles to help you build amazing free cloud apps.
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Build And Deploy A Free Cloud App: 3 Best Practices Articles Now Available!
Salesforce’s foray into injecting social features into the enterprise world, Chatter , is finally open to the public after four months in private beta. Announced last November, Chatter leverages what Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff calls the Cloud 2 , delivering realtime access to data and information, using social sources, such as YouTube and Twitter. In Feburary, Chatter was launched in private beta to 100 companies and eventually expanded to more than 5,000 customers
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After Four Months In Private Beta, Salesforce Chatter Finally Arrives As A Public Conversation
Socailtext is adopting Twitter annotations for a new service it is calling Socailtext Connect. The service is a method for connecting legacy apps by surfacing events that appear in an activity stream. The service, now in beta, uses the work done on the Twitter annotations spec to create a social layer that makes events in systems readable both by machines and human
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Socialtext Brings the Twitter Annotations Spec into the Enterprise
