Comments on: Salesforce.com, Apex and Web 2.0 vendor lock-in http://www.itwriting.com/blog/16-salesforcecom-apex-and-web-20-vendor-lock-in.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim http://www.itwriting.com/blog/16-salesforcecom-apex-and-web-20-vendor-lock-in.html/comment-page-1#comment-30 Tim Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:40:55 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=16#comment-30 <blockquote> dont know if you got a trackback </blockquote> Thanks - I've disabled trackbacks for the moment as I'm not convinced the spam problem is sorted (I had masses of trackback spam on my old blog until I disabled it). Tim

dont know if you got a trackback

Thanks – I’ve disabled trackbacks for the moment as I’m not convinced the spam problem is sorted (I had masses of trackback spam on my old blog until I disabled it).

Tim

]]> By: James Governor http://www.itwriting.com/blog/16-salesforcecom-apex-and-web-20-vendor-lock-in.html/comment-page-1#comment-29 James Governor Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:00:38 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=16#comment-29 dont know if you got a trackback http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/002366.html dont know if you got a trackback
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]]> By: Matt Ammerman http://www.itwriting.com/blog/16-salesforcecom-apex-and-web-20-vendor-lock-in.html/comment-page-1#comment-25 Matt Ammerman Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:43:57 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=16#comment-25 Tim, You raise some very good points in general about the state of the SaaS enablement (platforms) market. Vendor lock-in is an issue, but it's not the only issue - as ALL platform providers will have to answer the question from vendors: "What if things change? What's my exit strategy? Can I even have an exit strategy?" When confronted about the lock-in issue with the Apex implementation, the mitigating factors provided by Sf constitute dilution of the need for a platform in the first place. Individual apps can talk to each other via SOAP web services, there's nothing special or new about that... so, what is Apex then if you're not utilizing its internals? That said, Apex might represent the 'best yet' of SaaS platforms. But given that it's a Spring 07 rollout... there may be one or more better alternatives available by then. In any case, thanks for the insightful writing on the topic. Cheers, Matt Tim,
You raise some very good points in general about the state of the SaaS enablement (platforms) market. Vendor lock-in is an issue, but it’s not the only issue – as ALL platform providers will have to answer the question from vendors: “What if things change? What’s my exit strategy? Can I even have an exit strategy?”

When confronted about the lock-in issue with the Apex implementation, the mitigating factors provided by Sf constitute dilution of the need for a platform in the first place. Individual apps can talk to each other via SOAP web services, there’s nothing special or new about that… so, what is Apex then if you’re not utilizing its internals?

That said, Apex might represent the ‘best yet’ of SaaS platforms. But given that it’s a Spring 07 rollout… there may be one or more better alternatives available by then.

In any case, thanks for the insightful writing on the topic.

Cheers, Matt

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