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It appears that Benioff is looking to "skip" $2B and jump to $3B. I hope so.

Will SFDC be able to extend it's market share withing the Cloud?

I don't know, my knee-jerk answer to this question is DUH!?!?! (and I think it's the right answer). The SFDC that we all know and love is enjoying a 25% gain every quarter for a bunch of quarters in a row (if I were a real blogger I'd probably go look that up to have actual numbers) But this article I just read seemed to question whether or not SFDC will be able to. Seems like a no-brainer to me, but you can read it for yourself and decide for yourself as well!

Cloud Governance, really?

This one kinda got me sucked in. If you get sucked in too make sure you read all the way to the end of the article. I thought this would be another "infrastructure guy" bashing the cloud world. The fact is, if you only read the first part of the article, that's what you'll get. Keep reading though, the guys got some interesting points to make regarding the cloud and how it needs to be used in today's corporations, nohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gift blocked. Anybody that's willing to admit the "ostrich defense" is not a good one deserves to be read, at least for one article.

Chatter and Procial networks

Unless you're living under a rock or in a cave you probably saw one if not both of the Chatter commercials during the Superbowl this past weekend. The thing is, I don't know if it really made the kind of splash that $3 Million/30 seconds was worth. I like them but I don't know that it really talked about any of the truly interesting things on the horizon. Maybe it shouldn't have. If it's purpose was to drive people to the website, sign up for free account I'm guessing they succeeded.
What I want to know about is where Salesforce.com is going with some of these acquisitions over the past few weeks. The purchase of ManyMoons.com is really interesting to me. My company uses BasecampHQ and it works just fine. But I had to go check out the buzz around ManyMoons and I'm here to say, it's a cool looking service. If you haven't looked at it (and don't have the time) imagine BasecampHQ with an attractive UI and a few more features that are easier to use. I'm particularly interested in the impact this might have on Salesforce actually creating a procial netowrk (professional/Social). I'm not trying to drop buzz word for the sake of creating buzz, I just think the growth of social networks really needs to invade the workspace in a productive way. It's just got to be more effective that LinkedIn (which I don't consider a procial network at all) and bring about actual collaboration and project management in one place.
Keep and eye on it, buzz word or not, it's the future of cloud-based projects and project management.
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