Comments on: Salesforce.com builds another bridge to Google’s cloud http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/07/salesforcecom-builds-another-bridge-to-googles-cloud/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:19:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: edhardy622 http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/07/salesforcecom-builds-another-bridge-to-googles-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-896000 edhardy622 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:29:16 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=101225#comment-896000 British law student sues Abercrombie-Fitch for disability discrimination.<br><a href="http://www.abercrombieonsale.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.abercrombieonsale.co.uk</a> British law student sues Abercrombie-Fitch for disability discrimination.
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]]> By: Mike_at_Wanna_Develop_COM http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/07/salesforcecom-builds-another-bridge-to-googles-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-876223 Mike_at_Wanna_Develop_COM Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:19:17 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=101225#comment-876223 It was predictable since they already had partnered up with Google before as mentioned.. Nice partnership for Salesforce though as they need Google more then Google needs them --- they are in it to win it and that is good news. I like their aggressive approaches as well. A company I follow closely :)<br><br>Mike It was predictable since they already had partnered up with Google before as mentioned.. Nice partnership for Salesforce though as they need Google more then Google needs them — they are in it to win it and that is good news. I like their aggressive approaches as well. A company I follow closely :)

Mike

]]> By: Alex2007 http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/07/salesforcecom-builds-another-bridge-to-googles-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-876222 Alex2007 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:02:28 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=101225#comment-876222 Who flippin' cares? The whole notion of "Cloud" computing in my opinion is one big online circle jerk. With SaaS, at best, you get a few clever gadgets and can create hosted forms and reports, but instead of paying once and being done with it as in any in-house or off-the-shelf application, you have to keep paying through the nose, by user, by month ad ad nauseam. There’s no real intelligence to SFDC in the way of predictive modeling. Sure, you can build triggers for e-mails, tasks, and data, but when you get right down to it, it’s dumber than dirt, just hosted – and expensive. Correct me if I'm wrong, but SFDC won't let you create a single user account for everyone in marketing - you have to purchase separate licenses for each person, even if they have very limited reader needs. The apps I've created using SFDC have been nice, but slower than any end-user would like. And when you attempt to create OLAP type reports with drill-down into thousands of records, it can get painfully slow to the point it's just not tolerated by end users. I was an early adopter of SFA/CRM and I can remember when <a href="http://Upshot.com" rel="nofollow">Upshot.com</a> was in superior to SFDC for access to back-end data, etc. Does SFDC even today offer a native ODBC connector? The last I checked, you had to license one from third party vendors. You would be shocked to find out how expensive it is to have SFDC perform a roll-back - even though they do daily backups (you better create your own back-ups nightly). I think SugarCRM and open source is the future of CRM/SFA. It looks like anyone with a server can play in this game. This country needs manufacturing jobs, innovations in mass transit, and an entirely new national infrastructure for water, transpo, broadband, etc. This SaaS ‘revolution’ is sheer puffery. At the rate we're going as a nation, pretty soon, we'll all share an inter-connected misery devoid of privacy, served up ads based on our psychographic profile for things we used to be able to afford when this country actually had jobs that produced things of value. Who flippin' cares? The whole notion of “Cloud” computing in my opinion is one big online circle jerk. With SaaS, at best, you get a few clever gadgets and can create hosted forms and reports, but instead of paying once and being done with it as in any in-house or off-the-shelf application, you have to keep paying through the nose, by user, by month ad ad nauseam. There’s no real intelligence to SFDC in the way of predictive modeling. Sure, you can build triggers for e-mails, tasks, and data, but when you get right down to it, it’s dumber than dirt, just hosted – and expensive. Correct me if I'm wrong, but SFDC won't let you create a single user account for everyone in marketing – you have to purchase separate licenses for each person, even if they have very limited reader needs. The apps I've created using SFDC have been nice, but slower than any end-user would like. And when you attempt to create OLAP type reports with drill-down into thousands of records, it can get painfully slow to the point it's just not tolerated by end users. I was an early adopter of SFA/CRM and I can remember when Upshot.com was in superior to SFDC for access to back-end data, etc. Does SFDC even today offer a native ODBC connector? The last I checked, you had to license one from third party vendors. You would be shocked to find out how expensive it is to have SFDC perform a roll-back – even though they do daily backups (you better create your own back-ups nightly). I think SugarCRM and open source is the future of CRM/SFA. It looks like anyone with a server can play in this game. This country needs manufacturing jobs, innovations in mass transit, and an entirely new national infrastructure for water, transpo, broadband, etc. This SaaS ‘revolution’ is sheer puffery. At the rate we're going as a nation, pretty soon, we'll all share an inter-connected misery devoid of privacy, served up ads based on our psychographic profile for things we used to be able to afford when this country actually had jobs that produced things of value.

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