Marc Benioff taunts the awakened dinosaurs
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| Following is part of the exchange, where I asked Benioff for his thoughts on
| Microsoft. He has called Microsoft a dinosaur, incapable of innovation, and a
| monopolist.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9895987-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
The GPL meanwhile makes its entry into Salesforce...
XAware Open Source Data Integration Plug-in for Salesforce Now Available on the
AppExchange
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| Available to all developers under an open source GPL v2 license, XAware
| enhances the productivity of other development tools and frameworks by
| building composite data services. These services provide real-time access to
| information and the ability to abstract, transform, aggregate and mashup
| data. Developers use XAware capabilities to create a services-based data
| virtualization layer, which delivers a single view of data that can be
| consumed or served up easily.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080317005174&newsLang=en
Related:
Salesforce says it's beating, mirroring Microsoft
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| While dismissing Microsoft's announced move into Salesforce's
| on-demand software turf, Benioff also said that his firm is akin
| to Microsoft back when that company's marquee product was the
| DOS operating system.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/salesforce-says-its-beating-mirroring/story.aspx?guid=%7BA7713533%2D8E00%2D4506%2DA0EA%2D525F1935AAA7%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
http://tinyurl.com/3d72ov
Google, Salesforce.com partner on Web site
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| Salesforce.com and Google launched a Web site on Tuesday that is designed
| to allow the online customer relationship management software maker to
| act as a reseller for Google's AdWords.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6188670.html
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
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
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