Comments on: Watch Out Salesforce. Intuit Opens Up QuickBase To Developers http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/ Startup and Technology News Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:31:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Laura Lederman http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2233089 Laura Lederman Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:56:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2233089 Has anyone heard that Intuit will be developing on the force.com? This would seem to be in conflict with them opening up QuickBase. Has anyone heard that Intuit will be developing on the force.com? This would seem to be in conflict with them opening up QuickBase.

]]> By: Randall http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2221189 Randall Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:58:00 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2221189 Vendor lock-in is doubly problematic with QuickBase's offering. Not only are customers locked-in to Intuit's product suite (see #5 above), but they are locked into Flex as well and neither is particularly impressive. Vendor lock-in is doubly problematic with QuickBase’s offering. Not only are customers locked-in to Intuit’s product suite (see #5 above), but they are locked into Flex as well and neither is particularly impressive.

]]> By: Christian Fauré » Blog Archive » Les plates-formes web de développement http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2187690 Christian Fauré » Blog Archive » Les plates-formes web de développement Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:14:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2187690 [...] Petit à petit, l’écosystème des plates-formes web de développement (DaaS, Developement as a Service) commence à se dessiner.Dressons une petite liste : il y a Amazon (+Heroku ), SalesForce, récemment Google avec Google Apps Engine, puis de plus petits acteurs comme Bungee Labs, Coghead, Rollbase, et aujourd’hui Intuit. [...] [...] Petit à petit, l’écosystème des plates-formes web de développement (DaaS, Developement as a Service) commence à se dessiner.Dressons une petite liste : il y a Amazon (+Heroku ), SalesForce, récemment Google avec Google Apps Engine, puis de plus petits acteurs comme Bungee Labs, Coghead, Rollbase, et aujourd’hui Intuit. [...]

]]> By: Brian Morearty http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2186681 Brian Morearty Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:55:53 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2186681 Thanks for the mention of QuickBase. I've been an Intuit employee since 1999 and have used QuickBase and its API since it was introduced. It's a nice product that's well worth trying if you're considering an online database, either as an end user or a programmer. My favorite experience with using its API was when we automatically logged things QuickBooks was doing in our QA environment (within Intuit, not outside Intuit) to the DB to track and improve QuickBooks quality during development. It was cool--it served as a central online log where we could find problems that were happening on QA machines. QuickBase would send us an email if a bug was logged, we would fix it and do another internal release, and then we'd see the bug disappear in the subsequent logs. It was easy to do using the HTTP API. Thanks for the mention of QuickBase. I’ve been an Intuit employee since 1999 and have used QuickBase and its API since it was introduced. It’s a nice product that’s well worth trying if you’re considering an online database, either as an end user or a programmer. My favorite experience with using its API was when we automatically logged things QuickBooks was doing in our QA environment (within Intuit, not outside Intuit) to the DB to track and improve QuickBooks quality during development. It was cool–it served as a central online log where we could find problems that were happening on QA machines. QuickBase would send us an email if a bug was logged, we would fix it and do another internal release, and then we’d see the bug disappear in the subsequent logs. It was easy to do using the HTTP API.

]]> By: Thomas P http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2186448 Thomas P Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:27:36 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2186448 The cloud computing angle is a logical one for the larger old-school developers with the resources/dollars to market them. The problem is they rely on apps built from the ground up. How could you possibly stack the Intuit project manager up against tools like http://www.copperproject.com or http://www.basecamphq.com ? They ought to be partnering with the smaller guys and bringing them on board rather than throwing out the old if-you-build-it-people-will-come tripe. The cloud computing angle is a logical one for the larger old-school developers with the resources/dollars to market them. The problem is they rely on apps built from the ground up.

How could you possibly stack the Intuit project manager up against tools like http://www.copperproject.com or http://www.basecamphq.com ?

They ought to be partnering with the smaller guys and bringing them on board rather than throwing out the old if-you-build-it-people-will-come tripe.

]]> By: Thomas P http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2186443 Thomas P Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:25:49 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2186443 The cloud computing angle is a logical one for the larger old-school developers with the resources/dollars to market them. The problem is they rely on apps built from the ground up. How could you possibly stack the Intuit project manager up against tools like http://www.copperproject.com or http://www.basecamphq.com ? They ought to be partnering with the smaller guys and bringing them on board rather than throwing out the old if-you-build-it-people-will-come tripe The cloud computing angle is a logical one for the larger old-school developers with the resources/dollars to market them. The problem is they rely on apps built from the ground up.

How could you possibly stack the Intuit project manager up against tools like http://www.copperproject.com or http://www.basecamphq.com ?

They ought to be partnering with the smaller guys and bringing them on board rather than throwing out the old if-you-build-it-people-will-come tripe

]]> By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Salesforceにライバル現れる―Intuit、「QuickBase」をデベロッパーに公開 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2185665 TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Salesforceにライバル現れる―Intuit、「QuickBase」をデベロッパーに公開 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:59:34 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2185665 [...] [原文へ] [...] [...] [原文へ] [...]

]]> By: Mike Ni http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2185647 Mike Ni Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:49:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2185647 NetSuite also has a compelling platform upon which to rapidly build business applications. The choice becomes (a) building and extending your specific business processes without having to rebuild things like accounting, CRM, order management (e.g., NetSuite for building things like vertical solutions), (b) building add-on apps to CRM or accounting (e.g,. SFDC or Intuit), or (c) developing from bare metal (e.g., Google or Amazon) NetSuite also has a compelling platform upon which to rapidly build business applications. The choice becomes (a) building and extending your specific business processes without having to rebuild things like accounting, CRM, order management (e.g., NetSuite for building things like vertical solutions), (b) building add-on apps to CRM or accounting (e.g,. SFDC or Intuit), or (c) developing from bare metal (e.g., Google or Amazon)

]]> By: A Quickbooks user http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2185407 A Quickbooks user Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:02:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2185407 As a quickbooks user I would like to warn everyone that a deal with intuit is a deal with the devil, every year they remove features from the old flagship product quickbooks pro ($175 retail per seat) & adding them to the newer "premier" version ($325 per seat) Now add to that little trick the fact that they are forcing me to upgrade by holding my credit card clearing services hostage. If I don't upgrade they stop letting me use their service and it's a HUGE pain in the ass to change services to say nothing of the integration. their service is a bit more expensive but the integration makes it worth while. all in all, If you haven't taken the quickbooks pill, avoid it! As a quickbooks user I would like to warn everyone that a deal with intuit is a deal with the devil, every year they remove features from the old flagship product quickbooks pro ($175 retail per seat) & adding them to the newer “premier” version ($325 per seat) Now add to that little trick the fact that they are forcing me to upgrade by holding my credit card clearing services hostage. If I don’t upgrade they stop letting me use their service and it’s a HUGE pain in the ass to change services to say nothing of the integration. their service is a bit more expensive but the integration makes it worth while.

all in all, If you haven’t taken the quickbooks pill, avoid it!

]]> By: Sunil http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2185397 Sunil Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:57:47 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2185397 Salesforce has a compelling and proven platform in this space, with a business application and customers. This provides a good direction when developing a new app and ready customers who see the app as an additional feature. Amazon and Google are just infrastructure providers. They do not provide the same cohesiveness and integration. This new business of Intuit is a good bet from that perspective. There could be a market where Intuit, Salesforce and other such providers integrate more tightly to provide a wholesome business app marketplace where customers can pick and choose all the features they need for their business. Underneath it could be Salesforce powering CRM, Intuit for Accounting and maybe another player for supply chain. Salesforce has a compelling and proven platform in this space, with a business application and customers. This provides a good direction when developing a new app and ready customers who see the app as an additional feature. Amazon and Google are just infrastructure providers. They do not provide the same cohesiveness and integration. This new business of Intuit is a good bet from that perspective. There could be a market where Intuit, Salesforce and other such providers integrate more tightly to provide a wholesome business app marketplace where customers can pick and choose all the features they need for their business. Underneath it could be Salesforce powering CRM, Intuit for Accounting and maybe another player for supply chain.

]]> By: Vasudev Ram http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2185156 Vasudev Ram Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:54:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2185156 Hey TechCrunch, Unless its a bug in your software (in which case, please fix it), please kick that jackass commenter #2 (Cody - see above) off your site for trying to impersonate me (ineffectively, at that, the jerk, since my name is in the poster field). (I refreshed the page a few times to check that it was not some problem with my browser, but it still shows as described above). Thanks, Vasudev Ram www.dancingbison.com Hey TechCrunch,

Unless its a bug in your software (in which case, please fix it), please kick that jackass commenter #2 (Cody - see above) off your site for trying to impersonate me (ineffectively, at that, the jerk, since my name is in the poster field).

(I refreshed the page a few times to check that it was not some problem with my browser, but it still shows as described above).

Thanks,
Vasudev Ram
http://www.dancingbison.com

]]> By: Ramblings of a Short Man » QuickBase opens up to developers http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2185141 Ramblings of a Short Man » QuickBase opens up to developers Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:45:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2185141 [...] picked up on QuickBase’s foray into being a developer platform and it’s great hit.  And this is [...] [...] picked up on QuickBase’s foray into being a developer platform and it’s great hit.  And this is [...]

]]> By: coffeeforclosers.org » Blog Archive » The Enterprise Platform Battle is Joined… by Intuit. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2184843 coffeeforclosers.org » Blog Archive » The Enterprise Platform Battle is Joined… by Intuit. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:14:44 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2184843 [...] AppExchange platform model has been allowed to reign relatively freely, until recently. Today Erik Schonfeld blogged that Intuit has announced that they are opening their Quickbase platform to developers for [...] [...] AppExchange platform model has been allowed to reign relatively freely, until recently. Today Erik Schonfeld blogged that Intuit has announced that they are opening their Quickbase platform to developers for [...]

]]> By: Frank Church http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2184799 Frank Church Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:56:17 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2184799 We'll see, but the small customers they are used to don't have much aptitude for this sort of stuff. Time to review their API... We’ll see, but the small customers they are used to don’t have much aptitude for this sort of stuff. Time to review their API…

]]> By: Vasudev Ram http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2184655 Vasudev Ram Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:36:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/watch-out-salesforce-intuit-opens-up-quickbase-to-developers/#comment-2184655 Sounds interesting all right - thanks. Will check it out. - Vasudev Sounds interesting all right - thanks. Will check it out.

- Vasudev

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