Google & Salesforce vs. Microsoft

Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft, these are the ingredients of the story. No need to say anything about the first and the last, and Salesforce is a much younger company, founded back in 1999, in California. They are well established in the on-demand software market, specializing in on-demand Customer Relashionship management solutions. The most interesting part is that Google just forged an alliance with them, with the purpose of delivering online software to compete with Microsoft's packaged software...


Basically, we're talking about Google's software suite known as "Google Apps" to having applications included in software services offered by their new ally, Salesforce.

Yankee Group's analyst Sheryl Kingstone said "Salesforce.com and Google have changed the game again. This is revolutionizing the way people work," and this may prove to be true in the coming months, because it gets easier to keep your data online, rather than having to store everything on your computer, back it up on a regular basis, and so on.

"Google and Salesforce.com have always had similar models and philosophies about delivering innovations made possible by the Internet. Together, we are making more applications and services available online so customers can focus on building their core business rather than the applications that support it," said Eric Schmidt, Google chief executive.

Oh, my, things are getting really interesting, especially since Microsoft seems to have multiple problems at this time, with Yahoo's rejection and Vista customer (in)satisfaction being the biggest ones. Now, one of their toughest competitors just got a better position...

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