The Google Apps Marketplace–Chances of Survival
Over on his blog, VC Brad Feld posted about the experience of three of his portfolio companies being part of the Google Apps Marketplace – Spanning, Yesware and Attachments are all built on top of Google Apps and Feld is particularly positive about their experience; While Google has been building
Google Launches Apps Marketplace
I’m at the Google Campfire One event where they’ve just announced the Google Apps Marketplace. The site is live now, feel free to browse. The speculation is now over, this is Google’s answer on whether they will enter the Business Applications market – they just did, with an entire ecosystem of Partners. The new Marketplace [...]
Redux: Will Google Enter the Business Applications Market?
If you think I am here to spill the beans, you’re wrong. On a purely speculative level, if there is some news to come, and if there is an embargo related to it, then here @ CloudAve we respect that. And it’s all a big IF. So no, I am simply dusting off an old [...]
Box.net – Another Frontal Assault on Microsoft
You’ve got to hand it to box.net (read about ‘em here), fresh from their last campaign which squarely put them head to head with Microsoft (see the evidence here) Box is today announcing that it is launching an application on the salesforce.com app exchange. While this may be a seemingly boring announcements, digging deeper into [...]
Balancing Platforms and Applications at Salesforce.com
With steady growth, more than $1Bn in revenue last year, and a PR-grabbing tour just getting underway, Salesforce.com remains a company to watch in the Cloud Computing space. As the New York Times‘ Ashlee Vance put it this week, [Salesforce CEO Marc] Benioff describes himself as ‘the Billy Graham of cloud computing.’ And last week, [...]
