Marc Benioff vs. Hasso Plattner. Get your popcorn. Here’s a live video stream from Ustream.tv

This is a debate you don’t want to miss. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff faces off with SAP Co-Founder and ex-CEO Hasso Plattner tomorrow night. This is part of the Great Debate series put together the Churchill Club and is titled: The Future of Enterprise Software.
Here are the issues that I expect they will discuss:
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If you are subscribed to Salesforce.com’s developer newsletter then this isn’t news to you. If not, then maybe you will find this interesting. This is out of their March 2008 newsletter.
Emergence Capital Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, are launching a competition called “Force.com Million Dollar Challenge”. The competition pits Salesforce.com ISVs against each [...]

Dan Farber has an excellent series called Super Techies. He most recently interviewed Marc Benioff and here are some VERY interesting tidbits that he uncovered.

Started a company in high school called Liberty Software making games for the TRS 80, Apple II and the Commodore 64
He started as an intern at Apple programming applications in assemby
Started [...]

This is the second part to the tutorial I presented last week about Automatically filling in the Account Name when entering the Opportunity Name. This tutorial will go into a little detail about the structure of a Salesforce URL and I’ll explain the code that we used last time.

As a best practice, Saleseforce.com recommends that you prefix your opportunity names with the corresponding account name. Let’s say you have a sales opportunity for 50 widgets under the ABC Company account. The opportunity should be named:

“ABC Company - 50 Widgets”
This just makes it easier when you see an opportunity in a report or the [...]

This is another entry to our ongoing series of SaaS company profiles. To view more profiles click on The Players.
When you hear SaaS most people will think of Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com is widely recognized as the pioneer of the hosted software model. In fact, in the early days they adopted to slogan, ‘No Software’. The company [...]