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- Apex DT250
- The analog-to-digital transition is coming February 17, which means owners of analog TVs will need to pony up for a DTV converter box if they want to continue getting their free over-the-air TV. Luckily, the box shouldn't cost too much, as anyone affected can apply for a $40 DTV converter...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, power button, Apex DT250, Apex, digital television, converter box, TV
- Product reviews 2008-09-11
- Intuit revivifies QuickBase
- Intuit revivifies QuickBaseToo little too late - at Quickbase missed their windowThe Quickbase product is interesting but Coghead, DabbleDB and eUnifyDB are not the competitors. Salesforce.com is the competitor, especially if you compare Quickbase to Salesforce's capabilities around Apex and their ability to create on-the-fly applications. When you start comparing...
- Tags: Sales force management, Marketing research, APEX, Intuit Inc., Salesforce.com Inc., Intuit QuickBase, SF.com
- Discussion threads 2007-09-05
- Salesforce.com transitions to platform as a service
- Salesforce.com plans to make its Apex Code available in general release next month, completing its transition from an on demand CRM application platform to a more generalized on demand software development platform.In fact, with the forthcoming Summer ‘07 release, salesforce.com now describes itself as a the "world's platform-as-a-service," complete with...
- Tags: Web Technology, SaaS, Salesforce.com, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Microsoft to take a page out of Salesforce.com's Apex book
- Microsoft to take a page out of Salesforce.com's Apex bookSo MS is copying?How is this news? You actually sound surprised. Now that is a surprise to me.
- Tags: Sales force management, Apex, Salesforce.com Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-11
- Siebel 2.0: The end of Salesforce.com
- Siebel 2.0: The end of Salesforce.comI guess I'm not part of the 90%My company uses Siebel. It may be good for selling refrigerators, but it it HARDLY even ADEQUATE for complex, multi-month rollout cycles of IT gear, software and services.I'd be better off with post-it notes and Lotus 1-2-3...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Sales force management, Enterprise software, DreamFactory, CRM, SFDC, Salesforce.com Inc., Apex, Siebel Systems Inc., sf.com
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
- Salesforce.com adds ability to consume Web services in Apex
- Salesforce.com adds ability to consume Web services in ApexWowThat is amazing! Great work! They have just set the bar.
- Tags: Sales force management, Web services, Channel management, Apex, Salesforce.com Inc., Web service, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-05-21
- Salesforce.com adds ability to consume Web services in Apex
- With his typical heralding of the end of software , salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff now says that his company is bringing the "end of software to SOA" and removing "the barriers of software infrastructure that have been imposed by SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft.â€Beyond the rhetoric and snipping at competitors,...
- Tags: Web Technology, Salesforce.com, SaaS, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-20
- Salesforce.com unbundles Apex platform from CRM apps
- As promised, salesforce.com is unbundling its Apex development platform from its CRM suite of applications. With the new Salesforce Platform Edition, developers can build and deploy applications independent of salesforce.com’s CRM applications. The company expects to have applications in new categories, such as ERP, ecommerce, financial services, human resources...
- Tags: General, Web Technology, Salesforce.com, SaaS, IT Management
- Blog posts 2007-04-22
- Salesforce.com adds Flex to Apex platform
- Salesforce.com added Adobe Flex to its Apex development environment to enable richer, more desktop-like user experiences on its platform. "Technically, the Adobe Toolkit for Apex leverages inline mashups, allowing you to embed any Internet content inline, such as Flex components, within the salesforce.com experience," said Adam Gross, vice president, developer...
- Tags: Web Technology, Salesforce.com, General, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-15
- What flavor is your ecosystem?
- Marc Benioff, explaining Salesforce.coms programmable new Apex platform to Dan Farber last week, likened it to Windows: "We want to have the same open environment and to create competition." He genuinely wants the world to write its applications to Apex — even on-demand ISVs who are already well-established in their...
- Tags: Salesforce.com, Ecosystems, Marketplaces, Web 3.0
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
- Salesforce.com
- In 2000, Salesforce.com started selling a basic CRM solution delivered via the Internet. The company was swimming against the tide. Businesses, especially large enterprises, werent disposed to giving up control of their applications and infrastructure to a startup with outspoken and sometimes bombastic CEO Marc Benioff, who proclaimed the "end...
- Tags: General, IT Management, SaaS, Salesforce.com, Apex, Marc Benioff
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- Mashup Camp 3, Apex Code, Solaris 10, Google Office and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, David gives a recap of Mashup Camp 3 and we discuss how software APIs and platforms are evolving, with the Internet as a kind of operating system. its still in an embryonic phase, but the stage is set for a big shift...
- Tags: General, Open Source, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Mobile, Dan &, David Show, Mashup Camp, Office 2.0, Apple, Google, Microsoft, SaaS, iPhone, Red Hat, Salesforce.com, Sun, Apex, Mashup Camp 3, podcast
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- Salesforce.com delivers preview of Apex Code
- Marc Benioff is on stage talking about the latest milestones for saleforce.com. He announced that Dell bought into the on demand service, adding 15,000 subscribers to the more than 550,000 base of subscribers. The Winter 07 code base has been fully deployed across salesforce.coms data centers. But the highlight of...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Utility computing, Apex, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- Salesforce rebrands its platform ... again
- Under cover of todays announcements, Salesforce.com has quietly rebranded its API platform for what seems like the umpteenth time. For the first few years of its existence, the API was known as sforce, while last year the application-building platform first saw the light of day under the really lame-sounding name...
- Tags: Apex, Salesforce.com Inc., Salesforce.com AppExchange, API, ApexConnect
- Blog posts 2006-11-27
- No Software! But more programming languages ...
- No Software! But more programming languages ...Exactly!Phil, Thank you! I happen to agree with you 100%. The lock-in issue goes further than the simple, and more visible, aspects of a platform. The issue with Apex is not use of the platform itself, it's the overhead involved -...
- Tags: Programming languages, software, Apex, tire, programming language, programming
- Discussion threads 2006-10-26
- IE 7, Sun's Blackbox, Moto Q, Apex and more...
- IE 7, Sun's Blackbox, Moto Q, Apex and more...Feed no longer worksYour podcast RSS feed no longer functions. It failed to detect or deliver the latest Dan & David episode into iTunes, which forced me to manually download the MP3 to my hard drive and transfer it to my iPod....
- Tags: Podcasts, Digital music, Digital media, podcast, Sun Blackbox, Moto Q, Apex, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-25
- IE 7, Sun's Blackbox, Moto Q, Apex and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we check out Internet Explorer 7, which was officially released into the world at 5 PM PST on Wednesday. Its a major improvement to IE 6, but it doesnt leapfrog Mozilla. I was launch event for Suns Project Blackbox, a portable data...
- Tags: Apex, Microsoft Internet Explorer, podcast
- Blog posts 2006-10-19
- Speaking of the heavy lifting that Apex does, what about Flapjax?
- Speaking of the heavy lifting that Apex does, what about Flapjax?YABLYet another bl**dy language. Not content with AJAX spaghetti, we now have Apex using that slow creaky virtual machine that no one has or want installs to something that makes Apex 'easier'.Its a BROWSER not a development system. ...
- Tags: AJAX, Apex, Flapjax
- Discussion threads 2006-10-16
- Speaking of the heavy lifting that Apex does, what about Flapjax?
- If Amazons Jeff Bezos had something to say about Apex, he might say "it handles muck so developers dont have to." I refer to muck as heavy lifting. Anybody remember the days when, in DOS, what was being shown on screen had to be painted one pixel at a time?...
- Tags: AJAX, Scripting languages, Flapjax, developer, Apex
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- Must salesforce.com partners profit before declaring Apex a success?
- RedMonks James Governor certainly thinks so. As his treatise on the salesforce.com announcement suggests if you read between the lines, to think of Apex as just another brittle-app building scripting language like PHP, Javascript (well, AJAX), or Ruby that the world doesnt need another of could be underthinking it. Wrote...
- Tags: Apex
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
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