Previewing Dreamforce

People keep calling me to ask what Salesforce is going to announce and Dreamforce.  My standard answer is, how would I know?  I get briefings like a lot of analysts but in a situation like this you usually have to promise to hold the news until the company makes its announcements.  This is not new [...]

Anticipating Dreamforce

Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual user meeting and thought leadership confab, is two weeks away and the anticipation for this event is palpable.  In a tough economy people are looking for the company to do some magic and lift our spirits. The company did a smart thing by turning on its new collaboration product, Chatter, for any [...]

Salesforce planning June announcement

Save the date.  Salesforce.com is planning an announcement in late June and the analyst and press communities have been notified that “Marc Benioff will be presenting and there will be news.”  (That last part sounds like a movie title to me.)  But as usual, the company is being mum about what the news will be. [...]

‘smultitenant

The VMForce announcement leaves us all with one big question — ok, many questions like when and how much.  But the question I am most interested in at the moment is whether or not this is a single or multi-tenant thing and what it means for the industry and Salesforce’s multi-tenant chops and possibly, how [...]

VMForce Q&A

I got this long comment on yesterday’s VMForce post and I disagree with some, but not all of it, and rather than just posting it and letting it run, thought I would comment using it as the Q part of a Q&A.  Here it is. “Great analysis on vmforce announcement.” Ok, you didn’t expect me [...]

VMForce analysis

First take Salesforce.com and VMWare hailed the next generation of software development and deployment today at a joint announcement in San Francisco.  The two men introduced VMForce, an integration of VMWare a powerful Java development platform and Force.com, the Salesforce application platform for cloud computing. The significance of the announcement is manifold.  First, it opens [...]