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<title>Salesforce.com transitions to platform as a service</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5672</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:00:49 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan Farber</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Salesforce.com plans to make its Apex Code available in general release next month, completing its transition from an on demand CRM application platform to a more generalized on demand software development platform.    In fact, with the forthcoming Summer    07 release, salesforce.com now describes itself as a the "world's platform-as-a-service," complete with acronym, PaaS. It would have been more accurate to add the word"programmable."    "The vision for the company is around the platform as service," Collins to me. "We delivered applications as a service with CRM, and now people can create own applications as a service. That's the true benchmark and test of a platform."    Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff calls it "programming without software," which is an obtuse way of saying 'code to our ... ]]>
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