Oracle, founder & CEO Larry Ellison believes SaaS is not profitable enough. Here’s some excerpts from an article I read:
“We continue to get better at it and grow the (on-demand) business,” he said in an earnings call yesterday. “[But] it’s not really growing any faster than our overall business.”
“If you look at the leader, Salesforce.com, [...]

As many of you know, Bill Gates will be stepping down this week from his day-to-day duties at Microsoft. The blogosphere has been going nuts about it. This is for sure the end of an era. Some have even gone as far as saying this is the end of the on-premise era. Ironically enough, [...]

An update on the Google/Salesforce announcement. Just released today is an Apex toolkit for Force.com developers. This toolkit will allow developers to build applications which integrate CRM and Google Apps Data. The type of Google/Salesforce mashups we’ve been seeing so far have all been s-controls built with Javascript. But this announcement is different [...]

Looks like the relationship is about to get more serious. According to this interview with Marc Benioff, Google and Salesforce are going to make a big announcement today at Tour De Force in Santa Clara.
It looks like they will announce a growing partnership in terms of their application platform. As you know Google [...]

Vancouver based Peer 1 is hosting a free webinar with partners OnDemand Solutions and Mural Ventures. 3 speakers from each of these companies will share their experiences on how to build successful and profitable SaaS applications.
Click here to register.
And here is some additional information taken directly from Peer 1’s blog.

Phil Wainewright started an excellent discussion about the different variations of multi-tenant applications. He identifies different multi-tenant architectures implemented by leading SaaS vendors. For example Salesforce.com, Intacct and Oracle all claim to host multi-tenant applications; but the architecture of each system varies greatly.
For example, Salesforce.com is the purest multi-tenant application. Each component [...]

We all know how Marc Benioff can be quite vocal about his competitors. But check out this Dynamics CRM Online promo video. It’s 44 secs long but the customer spends about 30 secs trashing Salesforce.com
I thought it was funny that he didn’t mention a single good thing about Dynamics CRM. I guess Microsoft [...]