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Web telephony provider twilio, which is based in San Francisco, has today announced its first international office, in London. You can now purchase UK telephone numbers at a cost of $1.00 per month, or Freephone numbers for $2.00 per month. Twilio is not in competition with Skype or Google Voice; rather it offers …continue reading Twilio: programmable telephony, SMS comes to the UK, Europe Salesforce.com has made a host of announcements at its Dreamforce conference currently under way in San Francisco. In brief: Chatter, the Salesforce.com social networking platform for enterprises, is being extended with presence status, screen sharing, approval actions, and the ability to create groups with customers as well as with internal users. Salesforce.com calls this …continue reading Heroku gets Java, Salesforce.com embraces HTML5 for mobile Google has updated App Engine to 1.4.3. The new version adds: Prospective Search API for Python – this lets you register a large set of queries which are executed against a flow of data so you can create notifications or other actions whenever a match is found. Testbed Unit Test Framework for Python – …continue reading Fit for business? Google updates App Engine with the Enterprise in mind I’ve been mulling over the various Salesforce.com announcements here at Dreamforce, which taken together attempt to transition Salesforce.com from being a cloud CRM provider to becoming a cloud platform for generic applications. Of course this transition is not new – it began years ago with Force.com and the creation of the Apex language – …continue reading The Salesforce.com platform play The big news today is that Salesforce.com has agreed to acquire Heroku, a company which hosts Ruby applications using an architecture that enables seamless scalability. Heroku apps run on “dynos”, each of which is a single process running Ruby code on the Heroku “grid” – an abstraction which runs on instances of Amazon EC2 …continue reading Salesforce.com acquires Heroku, wants your Enterprise apps I’m in San Francisco for the annual Salesforce.com conference, where the pre-conference day is called Cloudstock and features a bunch of sessions on cloud development from vendors whom Salesforce.com considers more partners than competitors, and from Salesforce.com itself, along with a hackathon competition where you build an instant cloud app. Why Cloudstock? The parallels …continue reading One day of hacks, REST and cloud: Salesforce.com Cloudstock Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took multiple jabs at Salesforce.com in the welcome keynote at OpenWorld yesterday. He said it was old, not fault tolerant, not elastic, and built on a bad security model since all customers share the same application. “Elastic” in this context means able to scale on demand. Ellison was introducing Oracle’s …continue reading Salesforce.com is the wrong kind of cloud says Oracle’s Larry Ellison I’m attending the Cloudforce conference in London to catch up on what’s new with the Salesforce.com platform. CEO Marc Benioff was on good form, with a fun slide in his keynote presentation saying “Beware of the false cloud” – this was a jab at private clouds which he considers lack the advantages of a …continue reading The Salesforce.com platform: what’s new, what’s coming Microsoft has filed a patent infringement actionagainst Salesforce.com. The Register has posted more details. The filing[pdf] lists nine counts of alleged infringement: 1. Method for mapping between logical data and physical data 2. System and method for providing and displaying a web page having an embedded menu 3. Method and system for stacking toolbars …continue reading Microsoft sues Salesforce.com for patent infringement – but why? |
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