“an Francisco, US: Google and Salesforce.com on Monday announced an expanded alliance to deliver online programs competing with packaged software at the heart of Microsoft’s global empire.Google “Apps” including email, calendar, and document writing will be included in software services offered by Salesforce, which essentially serves as a for-hire technology department businesses use via the Internet.
“Salesforce.com and Google have changed the game again,” said Yankee Group analyst Sheryl Kingstone. “This is revolutionizing the way people work.”
Salesforce is a leader in “software as a service” (SaaS), which is referred to as “cloud computing” because programs are hosted online instead of installed and maintained on users’ machines.
Google vice president Dave Girouard said the alliance is unquestionably a shot across the bow of US software giant Microsoft, which has built its fortune selling packaged software such as Office and Outlook.
“We don’t wake up in the morning at Google and say ‘How are we going to get Microsoft,“ but they are going to feel an impact,” Girouard told AFP.
“We expect this to be part of a new era of computing. Eventually, the whole market is going to move into the cloud.”
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This post was written by techhair on April 17, 2008
