Salesforce Conference - Dreamforce
November 6th, 2008
Most of the conferences I attend are helpful and only sometimes they are inspirational. The Salesforce.com conference this week was absolutely in the latter category. There were several product announcements including Force.com sites which let you build websites on their platform, along with integrations between Force.com and Facebook and Amazon EC2. But beyond that, one of the use cases for Sites was created by rock alum Neil Young, who took the stage to talk about his Lincvolt site, then wheeled out a classic American 1959 Lincoln electric-naturalgas hybrid. Here was a SaaS solutions vendor taking time to talk about one of their rather famous customers, with a project so meaningful that it could help change the future - now that’s inspirational. Okay, and Foo Fighters were fun as well.
November 7th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Hi Doug,
I find your update from Salesforce conference interesting and food for thought….
With reference to your comments about integrations between Force.com and Facebook and Amazon EC2 that were talked about during the conference and emergence of numerous open source cloud computing tools as described in the URL http://www.technologyreview.com/web/21642/page1/ what are your thoughts on the deployment of Ingres database in Amazon EC2 instance something along the lines of what MySQL already seems to be doing according to the URL http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-ha-scalability/en/ha-vm-aws-setup.html or any other open source cloud framework for that matter would add any value to our existing/new customer base interested in open source cloud computing solutions?? or Is cloud computing service still a hype???
Just wondering…
Regards,
Usha
November 10th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Thanks for the note - I believe that over the next several years, almost all new packaged business applications will be delivered via SaaS offerings. We know that most of these SaaS players have adopted open source solutions, including Ingres, in the technology stack. For those occasions when we still build something custom, there will be an increasing number of solutions being deployed on EC2 to take advantage of ‘infrastructure on demand’ and the associated ‘elasticity’ that Amazon provides. For instance, we can envision a ‘Business Intelligence’ solution which requires an ‘elastic’ access to CPU/disk and ‘burst-able’ bandwidth for access. This is a natural application of these techniques that will bring tremendous benefit to business.
December 10th, 2008 at 2:04 am
thank you for this information.