Adobe no longer investing in Flash compiler for iPhone, sings Android praises
Adobe’s Mike Chambers has posted about Apple’s new restriction on how applications are built for the iPhone or iPad. He says Adobe is ceasing development work on this feature: We will still be shipping...
View ArticleVMforce: Salesforce partners VMware to run Java in the cloud
Salesforce and VMware have announced VMforce, a new cloud platform for enterprise applications. You will be able to deploy Java applications to VMforce, where they will run on a virtual platform...
View ArticleMicrosoft sues Salesforce.com for patent infringement – but why?
Microsoft has filed a patent infringement actionagainst Salesforce.com. The Register has posted more details. The filing[pdf] lists nine counts of alleged infringement: 1. Method for mapping between...
View ArticleThe Salesforce.com platform: what’s new, what’s coming
I’m attending the Cloudforce conference in London to catch up on what’s new with the Salesforce.com platform. CEO Marc Benioff was on good form, with a fun slide in his keynote presentation saying...
View ArticleSalesforce.com is the wrong kind of cloud says Oracle’s Larry Ellison
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took multiple jabs at Salesforce.com in the welcome keynote at OpenWorld yesterday. He said it was old, not fault tolerant, not elastic, and built on a bad security model since...
View ArticleOne day of hacks, REST and cloud: Salesforce.com Cloudstock
I’m in San Francisco for the annual Salesforce.com conference, where the pre-conference day is called Cloudstock and features a bunch of sessions on cloud development from vendors whom Salesforce.com...
View ArticleGoogle App Engine and why vendor honesty pays
I’ve just attended a Cloudstock session on Google App Engine and new Google platform technologies – an introductory talk by Google’s Christian Schalk. App Engine has been a subject of considerable...
View ArticleDatabase.com extends the salesforce.com platform
At Dreamforce today Salesforce.com announced its latest platform venture: Database.com. Salesforce.com is built on an Oracle database with various custom optimizations; and database.com now exposes...
View ArticleSalesforce.com acquires Heroku, wants your Enterprise apps
The big news today is that Salesforce.com has agreed to acquire Heroku, a company which hosts Ruby applications using an architecture that enables seamless scalability. Heroku apps run on “dynos”, each...
View ArticleThe Salesforce.com platform play
I’ve been mulling over the various Salesforce.com announcements here at Dreamforce, which taken together attempt to transition Salesforce.com from being a cloud CRM provider to becoming a cloud...
View ArticleFit for business? Google updates App Engine with the Enterprise in mind
Google has updated App Engine to 1.4.3. The new version adds: Prospective Search API for Python – this lets you register a large set of queries which are executed against a flow of data so you can...
View ArticleHeroku gets Java, Salesforce.com embraces HTML5 for mobile
Salesforce.com has made a host of announcements at its Dreamforce conference currently under way in San Francisco. In brief: Chatter, the Salesforce.com social networking platform for enterprises, is...
View ArticleInterview: Salesforce.com exec Parker Harris on the technology behind the...
A couple of months ago, I attended Cloudforce in London, where I spoke to Salesforce.com co-founder Parker Harris, Executive Vice President, Technology. The Salesforce.com platform is interesting for...
View ArticleMaking sense of Microsoft’s Cloud OS
People have been talking about “the internet operating system” for years. The phrase may have been muttered in Netscape days in the nineties, when the browser was going to be the operating system; then...
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