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People have been talking about “the internet operating system” for years. The phrase may have been muttered in Netscape days in the nineties, when the browser was going to be the operating system; then in the 2000s it was the Google OS that people discussed. Most notably though, Tim O’Reilly reflected on the subject, for …continue reading Making sense of Microsoft’s Cloud OS 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 the …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 – this …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 – and …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 virtual …continue reading Salesforce.com acquires Heroku, wants your Enterprise apps I’ve just attended a Cloudstock session on Google App Engine and new Google platform technologies – an introductory talk by Google’s Christian Schalk. App Engine has been a subject of considerable debate recently, thanks to a blog post by Carlos Ble called Goodbye App Engine: Choosing GAE as the platform four our project is …continue reading Google App Engine and why vendor honesty pays 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 with …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 new …continue reading Salesforce.com is the wrong kind of cloud says Oracle’s Larry Ellison |
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