See:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Salesforcecom-announces-New-Eclipsebased-Forcecom-IDE-376539/

For those of you who arent aware.

There is a complete programming langauge inside salesforce.com called Apex, and a complete user interface design language, called Visualforce.

You can program in any software, you can program straight into the salesforce.com web browser or into notepad if you want, but the benefits of using Eclipse are pretty strong.

Namely code checking, syntax highlighting simplified migration between orgs.

If you are a programmer, or interested in starting to code, check it out.

I just received an invitation to do an online survey, from Wendy Close at salesforce.com.

I accepted, and the survey was about market research into the need for an On Demand Financial Package that is part of salesforce.com.

I am excited about this. As long as it is done correctly...

Apparently as part of the Salesforce.com 'Service Cloud', we can now expect to see integration with twitter.

http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/22/salesforcecom-lets-you-answer-customer-complaints-on-twitter/

I think the service cloud is innovative, but innovative in a Moore way.

Will this concept cross the chasm? Personally, I feel that this technology is a bit too bleeding edge, and in it's current form will not become a dominant business solution.
In concept though it is great, and I'm looking forward to this being refined so that it does become the killer 'Service Cloud' we all need.

See:
http://www.crn.com/software/215900816

Makes you realise that salesforce.com having gone down in total mabye 3 hours in the past 2 years is not too bad.

Salesforce.com 10 months after announcing plans to build a data centre in Singapore are now ready to go live.

According to information I have obtained just this morning, I am lead to believe that certain user 'orgs' have been asked to become among the first to be migrated across to the new data centre platform.

If you view trust.salesforce.com, you will see incredibly fast page delivery speeds, but importantly, these speeds are 'delivery' speeds, and do not account necessarily for the actual speed it may take for you to get a salesforce.com page open on your computer.

Will this new data centre mean faster speeds for salesforce.com users in Australia? With less hops to us? I am not expert on telecommunications infrastructure between Sydney and Singapore, but I wonder which ISP's in Australia will have the fastest connections to the Singapore data centre?

Will this mean that salesforce.com users on the Singapore data centre will not be subject to the Patriot Laws that are in affect in the USA?

Salesforce.com has had their 'Trust' website for a long time now.
trust.salesforce.com is a central place to see the performance of the salesforce.com servers, inlcuding down time, maintenance, or page delivery times for example.


It seems google have now just recently mimmicked this service.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?

Just goes to show that Google and other Cloud Computing vendors are only now, implementing things that salesforce.com has had for years.

I would still like to see Google acquire salesforce.com, not this year... but maybe next?