Let me guess, pay for “Google storage” similar to appirio’s usage of Amazon’s storage service…? Seems like salesforce should step up and provide reasonable amount of storage for reasonable amount of money.

All this stuff is so new. The fact that the publication covering this news is entitled “Earth Times” has me sitting firmly on the sideline waiting for things to flesh out.
http://www.earthtimes.org/arti.....1536.shtml

If/when Gmail is 100% integrated into Salesforce for example, companies using SF would cease to have a need to run MS Outlook.

In regards to the rumored sale of Salesforce, we’ve heard this before numerous times..

http://www.salesforcetimes.com.....-unlikely/
http://www.salesforcetimes.com.....sforcecom/

Just ask any sales guy whose Salesforce Calendar doesn’t synch up with his Google Calendar. It’s the biggest headache and it seems like one of those simple features that should have been here yesterday.

I would bet that only the premier edition will be integrated with Salesforce. As a small company and a consultant that has worked with larger companies, this will be a huge advantage for the companies that can actually roll it out. Yes, it may be hard for some enterprise companies to make the switch, but it will save millions in IT spend if they can.

And as for salesforce, many of their customers have been waiting for email integration for a long time, so this will be another huge capability for them. Add on the other google apps, and we now have the cloud office of the future.

If it works, it means that in 2-3 years you could be managing businesses of any size on post-PC devices such as smarter–Phone-like devices or <$100 terminals (see OneLapTopPerChild for example).

Consider Salesforce (CRM)+ Plaxo (2.0 contact mgmt with socialnet connectivity)+Google Ad Words (search campaign mgmt)+DoubleClick (general campaign mgmt)+GoogleAnalytics (webside analytics)+Google Gears (ability to be offline)+Google Docs and GMAIl=end-to-end contact and campaign managment.

In other words, the ability to effect sales and communications while measuring the effect of each touch at any time and any place. That’s Enterprise-strength infrastructure that scales from one person to one million.

However, we want to see the integration of Gmail (without Outlook thank you) and Google calendar first. We rely on those outside the SF shell.

Docs was/were secondary but gaining momentum as its collaboration features (ex. version change notification) broaden.

Also, we were EE users but downgraded recently because so many SF features/apps are serious overkill for us small guyz and totally over the top on $$.

I also think this is a brilliant move by google who is throwing a major barrier into any potential acquisition of salesforce by microsoft who would be the most likely acquirer for salesforce in an attempt to bolster its web SAAS capabilities.

Seems like a win-win situation for both companies and a lose for everyone else

Benioff will take any excuse to ride the wave, increase the stock and relish in the PR. Good for him. He’s the best at it. Benioff must be loving this.

Google? Looks a little desperate to me.

I agree with Peter - we’re a small business and we do use Google Docs, we’re just getting into Salesforce soon…I guess it’ll be good for us.