Nik Cubrilovic, who handled TechCrunch for me the week I was away on vacation, came back and wrote tonight about Salesforce’s new mashup developer toolkit and a few sample mashups that include skype, writely and other integrations. The news in his post will be officially announced tommorow at the etech conference.
Salesforce is a huge company with great products and they are doing things in the business application space that no one, with the exception of perhaps Microsoft with Office Live, is even thinking about. If they can succeed in getting in the middle of business-driven application mashups they will remain relevant in today’s changing web. The announcement tomorrow suggests that they are going to be a player, or THE player, in this market.
Nik is an excellent writer and I’ve asked him to write occasionally for TechCrunch going forward (really as much as his time allows). I think he adds a lot to the blog and I enjoy working with him.
Mike,
The post on TC about Salesforce was the right info and at right time, well done. There’s a ton of excitement around all these neat consumer web apps. Let’s face it though, a lot of them don’t do a lot and won’t make a a lick of money (which is ok, of course). But SFDC has been kicking tail building massively scalable, mission critical business apps for years (I’m a user myself). They work, they’re slick and they provide a clear ROI for customers.
Your credibility went up a notch with me because of that fine post on Salesforce. I think they can show a lot of the folks in the web-two-oh space a thing or two about what really matters to most people–building a business that delivers unquestioned value to customers–and profits. I also think SFDC does a fine job of flipping the funnel around and getting customers to be their salespeople.
Thanks.
Tom, you are welcome. The thing I like best about the post is Nik wrote it.
That does it, author names are going in bold
Congrats Nik!