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Day 2 of the event featured talks from Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, AT&T's Ralph de la Vega, Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff, and others.

At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, announced the company’s latest venture.

With Force.com Sites, customers can build, host, and allow individual users to customize a public Web page using Force.com technologies.

IBM has launched a Center of Excellence for software as a service to help customers implement on-demand software.

Guess which SaaS provider is likely to benefit the most. Yup. Salesforce.com.

On this week’s EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk Google’s Chrome browser, Apple’s iPod event next week and my theory that Dell and Salesforce.com should merge.

On Google’s Chrome browser we riffed on the importance of the launch, how it’s really a battle over cookie files and how Mozilla’s Firefox browser may take a hit.

Dell and Salesforce.com have quite a partnership going on. Dell is developing its internal and some of its external application on Salesforce.com’s force.com platform.

Salesforce.com is moving its data centers to Dell hardware. And the two are teaming up on marketing pitches.

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.

Salesforce.com reported fiscal second quarter earnings that were on target with Wall Street estimates. The company on Wednesday reported second quarter earnings (statement) of $9.99 million, or 8 cents a share, on revenue of $263 million, up 49 percent from a year ago.

Oracle said it has had more than 23,000 downloads of its Oracle Business Indicators application for the iPhone.

Oracle and Salesforce were among the first with what I’d call real enterprise apps for the iPhone delivered via Apple’s App Store.

In fact, I’d argue those two–along with Sybase–are still the only enterprisey apps for the iPhone.

Apple’s iPhone app parade got an early jump on the 3G version of the popular device Thursday, but business and productivity apps seem to be lagging in the back of the line.

While Marc Benioff may rail against the status quo in the enterprise software business, not all software buyers will join in the chorus, says one of Benioff's chief competitors.

Web-based business software sold by companies like Benioff's Salesforce.com will likely augment, not replace, large, complex enterprise systems, ...