In a conference headlined with names like Hillary Clinton, the Beach Boys, Cake, Bruno Mars and Bono, you could be forgiven for mistaking Dreamforce for some sort of whacky business-themed music festival. Instead, it’s simply the way Salesforce decided to get attendees excited about their newest announcements: a new analytics platform and Lightning, a rapid … continue reading
C++ creator proposes unified call syntax Programmer Bjarne Stroustrup, the designer and original implementer of the C++ programming language, has published an ISO proposal to add a unified call syntax to C++. The initial proposal explores the possibility of giving member functions preference over non-member functions by defining thex.f(y) and f(x,y) notations to be equivalent, thus eliminating … continue reading
HP acquires cloud startup Eucalyptus HP has revealed plans to buy cloud startup Eucalyptus Software, with Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos joining HP to manage the company’s cloud business. The deal is expected to close in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2014, and Reuters reported the acquisition will be for less than US$100 million. Eucalyptus offers … continue reading
Salesforce1 Heroku Connect integrates the capabilities of both companies into a synchronization service … continue reading
Force.com and Chatter .NET toolkits provide native libraries for interacting with Salesforce APIs … continue reading
If you’re in or near San Francisco, you’ll be easily able to attend most of them … continue reading
Platform rewrite places APIs at core of Salesforce.com, enables more programatic access for developers to SaaS CRM platform … continue reading
How the growth of Salesforce’s CRM and social apps made it a big player in today’s market … continue reading
New offerings from the Heroku acquisition put Salesforce.com and VMware in direct competition with one another … continue reading
While Ruby maintains a certain degree of popularity, the other dynamic languages are seeing little adoption … continue reading
Next year, the company plans to offer its full multi-tenant database Software-as-a-Service under the Database.com banner … continue reading
CodeArmor Intelligence 3.0 also uses Salesforce’s Chatter collaboration features to assist in security decision-making … continue reading
