Salesforce.com Aims to Grow Into a Utility Computing Power: is it going to be like electricity?

Salesforce.com will stake its future growth for the next decade on delivering a computing platform as a service. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff wants to change the landscape by moving from software as a service to "platform as a service" and this means that Salesforce.com wants to contentrate on delivering data center and application development services, including server capacity, storage, management services and the labor that goes with it to businesses of every size. What I have heard is that Salesforce.com is not very friendly to its partners and wants to do all of it themselves. This is to the contrary to Microsoft that is trying to fill in the pipeline for its business partners. Regardless, the competition is going to heat up and during my doctoral defence in 2004, I said that software will change to utility computing like electricity is today. Maybe this trend is finally here?

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