Comments on: SalesForce-to-Google and the Force.com PaaS Lock-in Question

By: People Over Process » Numbers, Volume 3

People Over Process » Numbers, Volume 3 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:35:39 +0000

[...] is dubious. We’d need to see the Force.com breakout for “true” cloud (PaaS, in their case) revenue. The rest I’d call “SaaS,” which you could lump with cloud if you were [...]

By: People Over Process » Episode 14 - Hyper-V, CloudStatus, A Week of Cloud Conferences, Monitoring the Cloud

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:28:10 +0000

[...] into the tail-end of that, we move to a sort of spastic run-thru of the Force.com, Velocity, CloudCamp, and Structure conference I attended this [...]

By: joeandrieu.com » Blog Archive » More on Level 4 Platforms

joeandrieu.com » Blog Archive » More on Level 4 Platforms — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:54:42 +0000

[...] Bonus Link: Michael Cote on Platforms As A Service and Lock-in with Force.com [...]

By: People Over Process » Velocity, Cloud Camp, Structure - Cloud Conference Week, Part 1

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:20:02 +0000

[...] week I was in the bay area for 4 conferences (Force.com, Velocity, CloudCamp, and Structure) centered on cloud computing along with, of course, plenty of [...]

By: SnapLogic Blog » Connecting Clouds - Integration and Cloud Computing

SnapLogic Blog » Connecting Clouds - Integration and Cloud Computing — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:02:51 +0000

[...] Theres a lot at stake here, because there a strong possibility that integration is becoming part of the vendor lock-in strategy. [...]

By: Nick Hortovanyi

Nick Hortovanyi — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:04:33 +0000

The question of how to earn money from software is always interesting. What I see with the likes of force.com is the formation of new software channels. Being locked in to one channel means putting your eggs in one basket.

Can force.com exist in its own right, outside the umbrella of salesforce.com. If not, will it get quashed?

By: tecosystems » Question for Cloud Campers: The Cloud and Standards

tecosystems » Question for Cloud Campers: The Cloud and Standards — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:23:01 +0000

[...] perhaps, but not easily. And Salesforce.com’s Force.com takes that even further, as Cote observed during his time yesterday. Here’s how I contrasted a handful of the would be cloud providers [...]

By: Michael Neale

Michael Neale — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:49:22 +0000

It has always been hard to make a business out of open source, SaaS/PaaS just makes it a tiny bit harder.
Things will have to adapt, but there will always be a need for some on-premise software, even if it is on a phone ;)

However, in the Enterprise things take a long time – so there is time to adapt.