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like what salesforce is doing with you know pulling in jigsaw for instance so even just the basic integration with salesforce um would definitely be a big help
we chose salesforce.com and force.com very very consciously we saw that as leaps and bounds ahead of anything especially if you think about two years ago there was nothing that even came close to where salesforce was with their ability to stage custom application development in the cloud
cloud craze which is your enterprise e-commerce platform you've developed in the cloud now cloud cloud creates i believe it was the first e-commerce product that was developed 100 natively on the force.com platform is that right bill that's correct
we've been building e-commerce enterprise class e-commerce systems for almost 10 years now in what i call traditional web or java technology and it's typical in in those implementations to to spend a great deal of time and effort energy cost to integrate what is essentially another silo which is your e-commerce system and integrate that back to your crm so that you can effectively market
it's very hard to touch amazon because they've got this competitive advantage in terms of their economy of scale as they add additional servers so that will that advantage will only increase over time
you do see the large vendors like microsoft apple google doubling down on their cloud bets i think that's feeding a lot i mean the the scale is just massive
you do see the large vendors like microsoft apple google doubling down on their cloud bets i think that's feeding a lot i mean the the scale is just massive it is but there's certainly a gold rush mentality right now and i think it's being fed by a lot of investment capital
you know i think it is really more of a defensive play right now i think that because there's so much buzz around the cloud they have to make sure they've got that place on the chessboard covered but you know they're making a lot of money selling devices right now with lots of storage and upselling you and time will tell i think that they're they're doing this to make sure they've got it covered if it takes off i mean i think it just goes to show too that you know with something as simple as idi