‘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 [...]

Tweeting reality

My father-in-law is a study in concentration when he watches sports on TV.  In his den he sits before a massive HD TV with the sound off, just watching.  In a way it’s as close to being there as you can get, minus the crowd noise and a breeze if he’s watching golf or more [...]

Outward bound

I will be attending Microsoft Convergence in Atlanta beginning Saturday followed by attending the Salesforce-VMware announcement in San Francisco on the 27th.  I will do my best to find interesting things to write about here.

VMforce is New, New Force

Ok, the name of the new Force is VMforce and it will be presented jointly by Marc Benioff CEO of salesforce.com and Paul Maritz, president & CEO of VMware. Whoa! We know what each product does so the question is how do they fit together and does this mean Salesforce is getting into the business [...]