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Salesforce introduces Force.com cloud hosting service

By Alex Handy

November 3, 2008 — (Page 1 of 2)
Salesforce.com moved to solidify its position as a hosting platform with the announcement today of new integrations with Amazon Web Services. The announcement came at its Dreamforce '08 user conference in San Francisco.

Salesforce's newly found dedication to categorizing itself as a cloud company extended to the ceilings of the keynote auditorium, where blue skies with clouds were projected during CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff's keynote presentation.

Benioff enthusiastically espoused the numerous perceived benefits of cloud computing. He chided the audience of customers for mistakes he said were still being made in their businesses.

“What we have been talking about is very simple: all your CRM in the cloud and all your applications in the cloud,” said Benioff. “We've made those points ad nauseam. Then what we noticed was [that] a lot of you are buying things like SharePoint and these outdated servers. It's disappointing for the no-software crowd to see software used on your intranets. I was worried for you, honestly. Then I noticed [that] you are building these Web applications, and I noticed more software creeping into your organizations. I said, 'This must stop!' It's time to think of Force.com in a whole new way.”

With that, Benioff introduced Force.com Sites, a new service that allows developers and companies to host their Web infrastructure within Salesforce's cloud.

“Now you can run your whole Web in our cloud," said Benioff. "You can reach everyone on the Web, not just your vendors or suppliers or employees. All of those custom applications with one button can become a public website."

Websites hosted on Force.com Sites must be designed with the Visualforce UI design application. The back end of these sites can be tied into Salesforce databases and to workflows for approvals of changes to corporate sites. The service also offers domain name redirection to keep URLs in line with corporate policies.

Force.com Sites is available now as a preview for developers, and it is now included in monthly subscriptions to Force.com. For newcomers, Force.com Sites will cost US$1,000 for 1 million page views a month and $3,000 for 5 million page views per month.

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