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Cloud Computing Vendors A to Z

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

I HAVE A REVISED VERSION OF THIS POST…
Cloud Vendors A to Z (Revised)

Benchmark and Benioff and SaaS Zuora. These are a few of my favorite things.

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Benchmark and Benioff Put $6.5 Million Into Zuora to Create a Salesforce for Online Billing
This just sounds like a good idea. Benchmark, I have called them the Hanna Montana of VCs is teaming up with Mr. Midas touch to create a great new concept for an SaaS. Sounds good to me.

Salesforce.com Wasup

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

First, there were rumors about salesforce.com going directly to Oracle to solicit a buy. Now, insider trading reflects that almost 10% of its market cap has been sold by insiders exercising options… Wasup …

Salesforce.com execs cashed out $678 million and you haven’t

IBM: Out with the SAP and in with the SaaS

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Not really…
IBM, however, has recently added a new application on SalesForce.com’s AppExchange called IBM Information Server Pack for Salesforce that could allow IBM a little bit of a hedge if things should go sour with SAP.
IBM is going to make the application available for free in hopes that other companies and independent software developers create […]

EaaS

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Dreamforce 07: Salesforce rolls out Visualforce
Let’s just stop all this foolishness and call it “Everything as a Service”

ESM and SaaS

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

An interview with Botchagalupe.
Johnmwillis: Can ESM and SaaS work?
Botchagalupe: Absolutely.
Johnmwillis: Has it ever worked before?
Botchagalupe: No. There have been a few tries over the years. The first one I can remember was a company called SecondWave. These were a bunch of Ex Tivoli execs that started a Tivoli training company.  Then they transformed into a […]

My kids don”t care about SOA

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

They really aren’t up on the latest industry trends “AJAX, OSS, Web 2.0.” They always appreciated the chotchkees I usually bring home from conferences but they never have been excited enough to ask where they came from. However, this time my new friends over at the OpSource booth at OSCON have started a trend […]

Salesforce.com CIO Story

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Salesforce CEO leads charge against software - USATODAY.com
When I read stories about people like Marc Benioff I realize I should be selling shoes for a living.  This guy started his first software company when he was 15.   When I was 15 I was in somebody’s garage playing Deep Purple songs on my Stratocaster (among other […]