Dell bets on Salesforce.com’s platform as a service

Courtesy ZDNET - Between the Lines  Thu, 08/21/2008 - 7:09am

Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called “spectacular,” but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon.

On Salesforce.com’s second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a three year deal to use force.com to build applications [...]


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