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A million users, and all I got was this lousy chocolate bar

Salesforcewatch.com has found an apparently disaffected Salesforce.com employee using eBay to auction off a set of chocolate bars distributed to staff to celebrate hitting the million-subscriber milestone this month. Even more revealing than the seller's description of the chocolate as "sickly sweet, but decent for making cookies...

Tags: Compensation, Porsche AG, Salesforcewatch.com, Benefits, Human Resources, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-12-11

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Small outage at Salesforce.com, not many upset

Compared to the furore that used to greet Salesforce.com outages, yesterday's problems on three of its eight instances â€" including one of the five North American instances â€" has aroused little ire [disclosure: Salesforce.com is a client]. eWeek's coverage illustrates how difficult it is to stir up...

Tags: Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Full moon in the Valley? SalesForce and TypePad both down.

Full moon in the Valley? SalesForce and TypePad both down.Scheduled MaintenanceDavid -Both services were running scheduled maintenance.Salesforce was upgrading the rest of their servers to the Winter '07 release.Typepad info here: http://status.typepad.com-- MarkSalesforceWatch.comScheduled maintenance?Both sites were "up" enough for a request to their home page to respond with something....

Tags: Sales force management, TypePad, Salesforce.com Inc., Scheduled Maintenance, Full Moon, Valley

Discussion threads 2007-01-13

Salesforce.com has plans to stem outages

Salesforce.com executives have been giving more details of their plans to prevent repeats of the embarrassing outages earlier this year, according to a report of a user group meeting posted to SalesForceWatch.com, an independent user's blog. The company itself is neither confirming nor denying the accuracy of the...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., outage

Blog posts 2006-03-16

Salesforce.com puts its reputation on (the) line

Full credit to Salesforce.com for transparency over outages at long last with the debut of its live system status page, which reports real-time and historic status information for each of its locations. ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc.

Blog posts 2006-02-16

Another salesforce.com outage

Users are reporting yet another outage of Salesforce.com's application services, this time commencing at about 11.30am Eastern time today. Ever since the company experienced an extended outage just before Christmas, the company's performance has been under scrutiny and this latest occurence, coming just a day before the company's own year-end...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., outage

Blog posts 2006-01-30

Another outage, but salesforce.com is learning fast

According to TheStreet.com, on-demand CRM vendor Salesforce.com had another outage yesterday: "An internal company memo viewed by TheStreet.com indicates that customers in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America were affected for several hours." Although significantly less embarrassing thanThe new status page will get its first major test Monday...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., outage, system statu

Blog posts 2006-01-06

Extended outage at salesforce.com

Any salesforce.com user rushing to finish off work chores before Christmas will have rued their luck today. According to SalesForceWatch.com, "Salesforce has been down since 9:20am EST. Haven't seen any update — message on support line does not indicate ETA." On-demand outages are a lot like air disastersHaving set...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., outage, on-demand

Blog posts 2005-12-20