Archive for Salesforce.com
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Microsoft vs. Salesforce the court case
Packaged software king Microsoft and cloud computing prince Salesforce.com are duelling in US courts, with each accusing the other of violating its patented technology. The legal battle comes as Microsoft strives to adapt to a trend toward programs being offered as services in the internet "cloud...
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Salesforce’s Chatter for the enterprise
Salesforce.com on Tuesday said that its Chatter corporate social networking platform is now generally available. For existing customers, Chatter is free as a new feature. The company has a Chatter-only option for $15 a month for each user. Chatter takes the best features of Facebook and Twitter a...
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Microsoft sues Salesforce.com
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against Salesforce.com for allegedly infringing nine unspecified Microsoft CRM-related patents. Microsoft posted a statement on its Web site acknowledging it had taken legal action on May 18. Here’s an excerpt from that statement from Horacio Gutierrez, corporate v...
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Salesforce acquires Jisaw
Cloud-based CRM SalesForce.com has made a $3 billion entry into the crowd-sourced and cloud-based data services industry with an agreement to acquire Jigsaw. What that means is that data in Jigsaw is going to be available to all SalesForce users. “Salesforce.com is excited to bring the data ...
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Marc Benioff is at it again…
Marc Benioff is at it again In this interview with TechnologyLive.com, he absolutely assaults IBM and Microsoft and characterizes both companies as having "done a terrible job over the last decade". Some of the gems from the interview: TL: Surely you're not ruling out Microsoft and IBM in thi...
