Salesforce strengthens ties to Google: competition of the cloud is getting heated

June 25, 2008 — Building on their recent linkup, Salesforce.com and Google are aiming a new toolkit for Google Data APIs at developers. Salesforce released last month the Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs,which helps to build software programs that could run on Salesforce’s platform-as-a-service offering. The competition is getting heated and the rules of sofware development with it. I truly believe that there is a huge shift in mental attitude towards how software is built and how clients/end user customers sees it. The new generation (10 year olds) are the ones that will not even question whether things are done in the "cloud" or old tranditional way. Vendors have to be looking at this new generation.

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