Force.com market share

I recently came across the Equity research paper on Salesforce.com from William Bliar & Company the has some research on the market size for Force.com

"........The application development market that salesforce is targeting with Force.com is $129 billion in size, much larger than the $16 billion CRM space. One way to look at the platform is that it theoretically allows every employee at every company to become a salesforce ......."

Here is the source document.

--Divakar

Cloud Computing on NPR

There is a segment about cloud computing on NPR.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93841182

It is clear that the reliance on cloud is increasing on a daily basis. The interesting thing to watch is how government regulation will shape up for cloud services.

“We're all kind of used to the idea that if you don't pay your telephone bill, you know they're not going to shut off your phone while you're off on vacation ... But [for] your cloud storage service, there's no rules.”Harry Lewis, professor of computer science