Salesforce.com goes open source...sort of
Marketing hype aside, Apex is Salesforce.com's response to open source.
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| Nick thinks it's big news, and I do, too. It's big because it offers
| customers a way to customize hosted applications, rather than running
| them "as is." The myth has been that companies don't want to customize
| software. The reality is that they emphatically do. Salesforce.com's
| traditional customer base (SMEs) did not. Its big Fortune 500
| companies definitely do.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/10/salesforcecom_g.html
Also recently:
Salesforce.com CEO: Customization is king
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| Marc Benioff argues that Apex will let customers diverge further
| from one-size-fits-all hosted applications approach.
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http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-6124153.html?part=rss&tag=6124153&subj=news
Salesforce get another Open Source Plug-in
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| Jasper4Salesforce delivers easy access to advanced reporting by building
| on top of the AppExchange on-demand platform to integrate the one of the
| more popular open source reporting solution into the Salesforce suite
| of applications.
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http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=181
JasperSoft's Market-Leading Open Source Reporting Solution Now Available On
salesforce.com's AppExchange
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| "Jasper4Salesforce provides customers with a market-leading open
| source business intelligence solution that's been proven in tens of
| thousands of deployments."
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http://www.jaspersoft.com/nw_press_jaspersoft_appexchange.html
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