Comments on: More Details On The Google-Salesforce “Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend” Alliance

By: Who? Me?? » Google meets Salesforce

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[...] which began with joint philanthropic efforts in 2003 and has accelerated with hooks to AdWords, Google Apps, OpenSocial, and the Google Data APIs. Google is not the only beneficiary of Salesforce’ [...]

By: Salesforce.com CEO, Marc Benioff Earns a “Bozo?” | CRM FYI

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By: Google and Enterprise CRM » dejim.com

Google and Enterprise CRM » dejim.com — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:40:17 +0000

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By: Histoire d’amour entre Google et Salesforce? | .zoltán.jánosi.

Histoire d’amour entre Google et Salesforce? | .zoltán.jánosi. — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:34:30 +0000

[...] TechCrunch rapporte officiellement ce matin le petit jeu de passe-passe qui existerait entre Google (qui ne fait pas uniquement dans le moteur de recherche, mais également dans de nombreuses applications web en ligne, comme par exemple, la création de document – word, excell, ppt, etc – via http://www.google.com/docs) et Salesforce, le numéro un des CRM SaaS (pour Software as a Service). [...]

By: Google And Salesforce Cooking Up Something New Together

Google And Salesforce Cooking Up Something New Together — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:51:55 +0000

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By: Salesforce Stock Price Increases 10% Today: Google Acquisition Rumors

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By: b-spirit.com » The Google-Salesforce Alliance Explained By Commoncraft

b-spirit.com » The Google-Salesforce Alliance Explained By Commoncraft — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:06:47 +0000

[...] heard about the partnership that Google and Salesforce.com announced about a week ago. Google’s set of [...]

By: Next Generation Internet » Blog Archive » Google + Salesforce, what´s the buzz?

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:49:22 +0000

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By: The Next Enterprise Web » Blog Archive » Easy targets & MS in the enterprise

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:10:14 +0000

[...] It still is quite surprising when I see young cool/hip companies using some really stale old crap like MS Exchange and Outlook while you have so many better choices these days, with open standards so you can switch at any time. For enterprises I find it even more difficult to imagine; large companies actually do spend a lot of money on their infrastructure and are able to actually set up something usable for their employees which will save them so much work in maintaining and using. Even to the point you are not maintaining at all anymore with something running in the cloud like Google will offer with Salesforce. [...]

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http://ensarm.blogspot.com/ — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:51:23 +0000

Google App Engine – Repeating history…

20,000 preview accounts signed up within 48 hours. At an average of 3 applications per signup and assuming a minimum of 2 programmers behind each application what we have is 60000 apps in the making with 120000 programmers riding this super power Goog…

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By: http://ensarm.blogspot.com/2008/04/google-app-engine-repeating-history.html

http://ensarm.blogspot.com/2008/04/google-app-engine-repeating-history.html — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:20:41 +0000

Google App Engine – Repeating history…

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:00:36 +0000

Hmm, Tightly integrated is it?

In order for an incoming email to become associated to its contact or lead it must be forwarded from gmail to one’s Salesforce account. Sure it is a simple process, but if it requires a second thought there may be integration, but it is not “tight”.

So far SugarCRM seems to be the only one on the right track with an truly integrated email module. RelentaCRM, while still pretty immature (and very expensive), also has the right concept by wrapping a web app CRM around email.

I’ve got an idea. How about a Salesforce Lite CRM tight integrated into gmail.

By: itickr.com » Blog Archive » It’s getting Cloudy

itickr.com » Blog Archive » It’s getting Cloudy — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:07:12 +0000

[...] Google, Salesforce link up for business apps: The companies on Monday announced that Salesforce.com’s customers now have the option of using versions of Google Apps, Gmail, Calendar, and Google Talk that are tightly linked to Salesforce.com. Google is in effect becoming Salesforce’s productivity suite. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentation can be created from within Salesforce’s CRM application. GTalk works as the de facto instant messenger within Salesforce. [...]

By: Google Apps firma alianza con Salesforce » El blog de KnxDT

Google Apps firma alianza con Salesforce » El blog de KnxDT — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:32:12 +0000

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:30:24 +0000

Hi Nick– I appreciate your comment on Salesforce storage, but the “cloud” has a answer for that problem: first of course, is Google Docs, which don’t hit your storage limits. And for the rest of your files, check out solutions like Appirio Cloud Storage (powered by Amazon S3), which is an order of magnitude less expensive. Check it out…

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links for 2008-04-15 at DeStructUred Blog — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:32:10 +0000

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By: Google and Salesforce.com: Spinning a better tomorrow « Life in the San Francisco Startup Lane

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:01:04 +0000

[...] The interpreters of spin say this is just a partnership to stick it to Microsoft, and Marc Benioff admits as much, amounting to no more than adding a tab on [...]

By: Kevin Shaum

Kevin Shaum — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:51:29 +0000

I expect they didn’t buy Salesforce because that would mean committing to SF as their “official” enterprise solution. Instead, they want to remain open to other partners who might be SF competitors (e.g., 37signals), and not drive those potential partners into the arms of MS/Yahoo or Zoho.

By: jro

jro — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:47:23 +0000

I would be interested to hear from SalesForce.com users if this is a value-add. Within larger companies where I’ve seen CRM implementations, integration with any office-type documents wasn’t critical to the normal workflow. It may be different with SalesForce.com, though.

If there is logical coordination there, this could be a pretty big deal. If there isn’t a connection beyond the “enemy/friend” relationship, I can’t imagine this being anything more than another sales-via-exposure channel for Google to find it’s way into the enterprise.

Either way, Google wins in this deal. If it’s the former, both Google and SalesForce win. If it’s the latter, I’m not sure how SalesForce benefits.

By: Brock

Brock — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:29:56 +0000

Google wants to be the web’s platform of choice. Gmail and Googld Docs are just apps. Google could run Zoho just as easily (and without integrating it into Docs – different products for different markets), making the Google Cloud (aka, App Engine) the back end of everthing – just like Windows is today.

If Google can get enough of the premier online app providers (such as Saleforce.com, but others as well) to port to Google App Engine, then they become the standard. They’ll be built into the infrastructure of the web, and even if they start to lose Search market share to some startup no startup will be able to replace their world-wide super-computer.

Google knows that Search customers are easily lost. App customers will be a lot stickier. I expect that within two years AppExchange will be closed and both Saleforce.com will switch over to AppEngine. Salesforce.com will stand to save big $$$ by letting Google do what they do so well.