Force.com and Chatter Score a Coup – Hook Workday
Update – Both Infor and Concur announced similar deals – details to come. Update #2 – I spent time with Workday during the event to get a deeper understanding of what the force.com part of this deal actually means. Essentially Workday will use force.com for customers who wish to make advanced customizations on their Workday [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudBees Acquires Stax Networks To Accelerate Their PaaS Strategy
CloudBees, founded in early 2010 with developers in US, Europe and Australia, today announced the acquisition of Stax Networks, the Java Application platform running on top of EC2. This acquisition accelerates CloudBees’ RUN@cloud PaaS strategy which is slated for release in January 2011. Regular readers of this blog know that I am strongly pushing the [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Salesforce.com’s Plan For Enterprise Domination
I think today is a good day to revisit PaaS is the future of the cloud services theme. Salesforce.com today announced their agreement to acquire Heroku, the ruby on rails PaaS provider. When people talk about Salesforce.com, the buzz is mostly around their CRM or Chatter and the discussions center around how it fits into [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: VMForce – A Marriage Of Convenience
This is a second post in my series titled “PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services“. I was planning to write about Heroku but since the VMForce news was a good fit for the topic, I am pushing the analysis of VMForce under the series. The post about Heroku will follow soon. Today morning, VMWare [...]
