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Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's big spend: Video: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff delivered a keynote at Software 2007, outlining the companys strategy and position in the on demand space to the crowd of IT execs and software developers. It was basically a commercial, but I managed to ask Benioff a few questions after the keynote.He addressed...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., marketing, sales force, Marc Benioff; Blog posts 2007-05-10
Salesforce.com's Koral buy changes the game: Thank you Salesforce.com. Your acquisition of AppExchange partner Koral will certainly liven up the keynote discussion Ill be moderating at next weeks SaaScon show in Santa Clara, CA, entitled Understanding SaaS Platforms and Ecosystems. Im sure panelist Rene Bonvanie, general manager of AppExchange and developer relations will face some...; Tags: Salesforce.com, Collaboration, Web 2.0, Ecosystems; Blog posts 2007-04-11
Salesforce.com snags Koral's Web 2.0 content management service: Salesforce.com has taken another drink from its AppExchange marketplace pool, acquiring nine-person startup Koral and its on demand content management service. Kendall Collins, senior vice president of product marketing for salesforce.com, described the new offering, dubbed Salesforce Content, as the new killer application.Koral may not be a so-called killer app...; Tags: Web Technology, SaaS, Salesforce.com, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0; Blog posts 2007-04-09
DemoFall 2006: Content management 2.0: At DemoFall 2006, several companies introduced Web-based content management applications that fall under the 2.0 moniker. Koral demoed its freshly minted, on-demand content-management service that leverages the de rigueur Web 2.0 features. The company calls itself a “new kind of business software company--Enterprise 2.0.” Many companies are trying to claim...; Tags: Wiki, Koral; Blog posts 2006-09-26

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Dreamforce 07: Salesforce rolls out Visualforce: Marc Benioff took the stage at Moscone Center before an estimated 7,000 salesforce.com adherents from 42 countries to tout a "new force for innovation." After several years of negotiation, the company nabbed the Force.com URL and promptly applied it as the new name to the the salesforce platform formerly Apex....; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Sales Force, Logic, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-17

Podcast: Google + DoubleClick, salesforce.com + koral, green machines and more...: This week during the Dan & David Show, we were interrupted by the news that Google acquired DoubleClick. We discuss the impact of Google once again appearing to ace out Microsoft in cornering the market for online advertising. In addition, we talk about salesforce.coms acquisition of Koral, the discontinuance...; Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Social networking, Salesforce.com, SaaS, Microsoft, Intel, Green Tech, Google, General, Dan &, David Show, AMD; Blog posts 2007-04-13
Marc Benioff, John McCain, and Talking Straight: Now that Salesforce.com has injected itself into the current presidential campaign, initially by supporting the Mitt Romney campaigns fundraising efforts, I think a comparison between Marc Benioff and John McCain is in order. I used to think of Benioff as a maverick, an entertaining one at that, and his pioneering...; Tags: Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-04-10
News to know: Microsoft bug disclosure; Apple Airport security; XP SP3; AMD woe: Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Responsible disclosure, the Microsoft way.George Ou: Microsoft fights with researcher over Full Disclosure. A tale of two animated cursor attacks.Apple swats Airport Base Station security bugs.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: XP SP3 is still on the schedule for Q1 2008.Microsoft to push fix for patch trouble.Dan Farber: Salesforce.com...; Tags: General; Blog posts 2007-04-10
Coming up: The latest Office 2.0 wares: On Friday I will blogging from the Under the Radar conference, Why Office 2.0 Matters, at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View. The promo for the all day event says that 32 "emerging" and "disruptive" technologies that are changing the office landscape will be featured. Emerging, some of them, but...; Tags: Office 2.0, Microsoft Office; Blog posts 2007-03-19
News to know: AMD hypocritical; Second Life pol tricks; Mac Wi-Fi hack: Notable headlines:George Ou: Is AMD being hypocritical about benchmark ethics?Multicore move cuts Oracle database cost.Mary Jo Foley: Could a startup beat Microsoft and Google to market with a ‘cloud OS’? Microsoft asks ‘So who wants to be a programmer?’Ryan Naraine: Maynor demos MacBook Wi-Fi hijack, admits mistakes. Gallery right. Flaw...; Tags: General; Blog posts 2007-03-02
Office 2.0: Where are we at and please get off my network: Om Malik GigaOm, Rajen Sheth Google, Mark Suster Koral, Shel Israel Naked Conversations, Karen Leavitt WebEx, Ismael Ghalimi (Intalio, Office 2.0 conference host)During a panel titled "Office 2.0: Where Are We," the panelists above gave their assessments on the state of 2.0. My favorite quote was from Shel Israel: ...; Tags: Microsoft Office, Office 2.0; Blog posts 2006-10-11
DemoFall hits, misses and maybes: Rafe Needleman provides the wrap up of our DemoFall 2006 coverage, collecting the hits and misses from our ZDNet/CNET team who attended the event (see the Demo blog on News.com and on ZDNet): Hits Rafe Needleman, CNET.com: I was only able to stay for one day of the conference, but...; Tags: Dash Navigation; Blog posts 2006-09-28
First DEMOfall update: From the first two blocks of demos at the DEMOfall event, a couple of standout applications have already emerged. In the two sessions this morning, the first focused on consumers and the second on delivering more usable applications to business that provide the same capabilities, features, and look and feel...; Tags: DEMOfall; Blog posts 2006-09-26
First DEMOfall update: From the first two blocks of demos at the DEMOfall event, a couple of standout applications have already emerged. In the two sessions this morning, the first focused on consumers and the second on delivering more usable applications to business that provide the same capabilities, features, and look and feel...; Tags: DEMOfall; Blog posts 2006-09-26
Software for the enterprise: We move to the enterprise software segment of the morning.System One, is an online collaborative notebook built in wiki. The service is an aggregation point, with RSS feeds for various contributors or sources that can be dragged into the environment, which as a "semantic-based information framework," that includes security and...; Tags: Wiki, This IS; Blog posts 2006-09-26
DEMOfall 2006 begins today: A number of ZDNet and C|Net folks are here in San Diego at DEMOfall 2006 so look for great coverage of the event which kicks off in just a couple of hours. Last night at the opening reception, I had a chance to connect with some old friends and make...; Tags: Demos, DemoFall 2006; Blog posts 2006-09-26