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Considering PaaS

Considering PaaS

By Michael Coté on January 19, 2011

If there’s ready cash at hand, lock-in and “proprietary” is demoted in favor of a quick buck; if the developers are building a general application with a longer time between compile and cash, an open, standard platform is more attractive.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Azure, Cloud, CloudBees, Development Tools, enterprise software, heroku, joyent, PaaS, salesforce, vmforce, VMware

PaaS choices today

PaaS choices today

By Phil Wainewright on December 15, 2010

In the light of Salesforce.com’s swathe of announcements at Dreamforce last week and other recent developments, it’s a good time to take stock of the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) landscape. What are the choices now available to developers and business people looking to build applications on a ready-to-run cloud platform? As part of this review, I’ll report […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business ByDesign, ByD, Cloud Computing, df10, Dreamforce, heroku, PaaS, salesforce.com, sap, SpringSource | 2 Responses

Well, I am a systems guy…

Well, I am a systems guy…

By Denis Pombriant on December 15, 2010

It’s amazing to me how we overuse words.  Bothering to notice is an occupational hazard of the writing life, I suppose.  For instance, consider the word unique, which means one of a kind, if you add very or any other modifier to it, you get mush.  Today’s word might be amazing.  There is entirely too […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged benioff, BMC, CRM, database.com, df10, Dreamforce, heroku, Remedy, RemedyForce, salesforce, siteforce, technology

Impression from Dreamforce 2010

Impression from Dreamforce 2010

By Evangelos Simoudis on December 14, 2010

Long gone are the days when Dreamforce was a smallish conference devoted to SaaS; the first conference 10 years ago had fewer than 1000 attendees. This year’s conference had over 30k attendees (business users, IT users and vendors) almost 70% higher than last year’s. The lines in and around the Moscone, the hotel rates and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, df10, Dreamforce, heroku, microsoft, Red Hat, SaaS, salesforce.com, VMware | 2 Responses

Dreamforce 2010

Dreamforce 2010

By Michael Fauscette on December 12, 2010

Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference opened last Tuesday morning to the driving beat of WILL.I.AM and the showmanship of its flamboyant CEO Marc Benioff. Dreamforce is always a lively event but this year the energy level was over the top and only overshadowed a little by Benioff’s much discussed rainbow socks. I suppose you have to accept […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Bill Clinton, BMCsoftware, chatter, CRM, database.com, df10, Dreamforce, force.com, heroku, Marc Benioff, RemedyForce, salesforce.com, SCRM, Stevie Wonder | 2 Responses

Software CEOs talking fluent dork: its the developers, stupid. New Kingmakers

Software CEOs talking fluent dork: its the developers, stupid. New Kingmakers

By James Governor on December 9, 2010

A little after I wrote up the news yesterday that salesforce.com was acquiring Heroku I came across a quote from Marc Benioff, tweeted by @timanderson “Ruby is the language of the cloud 2″ Computerweekly has a fuller version: “Ruby is the language of Cloud 2 [applications for real-time mobile and social platforms]. Developers love Ruby. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged developers, Django, heroku, Marc Benioff, Paul Maritz, redmonk, Ruby on Rails, salesforce.com, VMware | 1 Response

Heroku Signals Force.com Wasn’t Working

Heroku Signals Force.com Wasn’t Working

By Bob Warfield on December 8, 2010

What a radical thought.  How dare he splash cold water on Force.com during Dreamforce! Hear me out. Like many, I read the news that SFDC would be acquiring Heroku, a Ruby on Rails in the Cloud startup, for $212M.  Perhaps unlike many, the news really bothered me.  It didn’t smell right, and here is why: Marc […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Computing, df10, Dreamforce, heroku, salesforce.com, strategy | 1 Response

News Analysis: Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212M – Shows Commitment To Next Gen Apps

News Analysis: Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212M – Shows Commitment To Next Gen Apps

By R "Ray" Wang on December 8, 2010

Acquisition of Heroku In Line With Platform Future of Salesforce.com At Marc Benioff’s keynote, the CEO reiterated his commitment to 6 clouds: Sales, Service, Data (Jigsaw), Collaboration (Chatter), Cloud Platform (Force.com), and Database (database.com).  As Salesforce.com continues to diversify its portfolio into adjacent markets, the platform as a service (PaaS) component remains a key area […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, application development, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Wars, CRM, df10, heroku, Marc Benioff, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, News Analysis, PaaS, Platform as a service, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, salesforce.com

Salesforce acquires Heroku: Dork Move, guys.

Salesforce acquires Heroku: Dork Move, guys.

By James Governor on December 8, 2010

I came into the office this morning to see a tweet that stopped me in my tracks. Salesforce.com is acquiring Heroku for $212m. In cash! Beyond the obvious bubbliciousness of the deal was a cold hard truth about the once and future kingmakers – developers. You see I didn’t first hear about Heroku from a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon Web Services, developers, heroku, joyent, node.js, Parker Harris, Rails, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, salesforce.com | 2 Responses

Enterprise Cloud Cross-Currents

Enterprise Cloud Cross-Currents

By Phil Wainewright on January 15, 2010

The new year has kicked off with some contrasting cross-currents for enterprise cloud aficianados and neophytes alike. On the positive side of the balance sheet, there’s a new and surprising Gartner prediction that a fifth of enterprises will have migrated…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, EC2, heroku, latency, network latency, salesforce.com, Service level agreement

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