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Brief Outtage: Salesforce.com outtage covered on Twitter

I experienced my first outtage in over two years as a customer of Salesforce.com today. It was brief - only minutes and the interesting thing was the immediate response I noticed in the Twitterverse. (Yes, I did just say twitterverse :P)

For a recap of the general confusion and dialogue that took place follow Salesforce.com on Twitter and view conversations that took place around 1:00 PM today.

Funny thing how word travels so fast these days.

Salesforce status update: Aaaayyyyyy!

(Aaaaayyyyyyyy!  Cool like the Fonz right?)

CRM Buyer’s Elise Ackerman is infomative and intelligent yet again with a Salesforce/Cloud status update.

I’m astounded by L. Ellison’s quotable yet again, I think “cloud computing” is just as stupid a buzzword for “do it on the internet instead” now as putting “e-” in front of the title of digital devices was a few years ago (e-toothbrush, e-organizer, e-phone, e-piano… etc.)

I guess Larry’s not really coming to grips with the legions of slick buzzword creating-marketing people who are overwhelming the exceptionally dull analytical types of the internet, and they’re doing it with style.  I like the marketing people, they make the internet less cluttered.

Well, that’s that! (2008)

I know full well that you successful marketing dynamos and your daily goal setting have no need of the foolish single-day-of-goals celebration known to the savage peoples as; “neu yars”, but as we transition from the reason six fears seven (because it eight nine) there’s plenty of people looking back and speculating ahead about what’s in store for all of us in the coming year.

BBC’s Maggie Shiels has an article on 2009 in silicon valley, Appirio set out it’s predictions for the next year just over a week ago, cloud computing journal has a whole smack of CEO predictions for the coming year and lastly Michael Sheehan is offering us even more in-depth predictions of his own.

My opinion?  December 31st, 2009:  SaaS will still exist, the people in that industry will have more business, and “cloud computing” will hopefuly have a more accurate name.  I’m a big fan of simplicity.

Good luck in the new year, everyone!

PaaS not passed up in India

Yeah it’s boxing day and I opened with a pun!

Akhtar Pasha of Express Computer has done a very thorough “what is PaaS?” style article and grabs a few quotes from the delightfuly bearded Doug Farber.

My personal favourite: “One thing we always keep in mind—people always overestimate what they can do in one year, and underestimate what they can do in 10 years. We are at the beginning of a huge technology shift, and only time will tell.”

True to life and to PaaS, I think.  Check out the article here if you’re interested in a bit of holiday reading after the murderous knife-fights and savage present beat-downs of the boxing day near you!

Ten deep breaths, Ellison.

In through the nose, out through the mouth.  That was the secret to anger management that my therapist taught me after an unfortunate incident involving ice cream, a six year old, a silk tie and a beluga tank.  You’d think with all the money he has Larry Ellison could afford someone who’d give him the same advice.

When a company with a 91.5 billion dollar market cap comes out and declares a 4 billion dollar company it’s “combat challenge” of the quarter, you’ve just got to wonder if there’s not a bit of vendetta in that.  Isn’t Oracle this massive company with arms spiralling off in all directions?  And at that size isn’t it capable of offering such a variety of services that if Salesforce pulls up and becomes a new household name that it can’t just do something else?

Set your sights on Microsoft, IBM or SAP Ellison, bigger ankles to nip at and more inferior services to usurp!  You can do it!  ”Oracle Messenger.”  I’m waiting for it.

ELLISON: “Let us taunt it. It may become so cross that it will make a mistake.”
HENLY: “Like what?”
ELLISON cannot find a suitable answer to this.

(Quote c/o Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

A story with conviction: Forbes

I get all giggly and excited like a schoolgirl when I read a story coming from a reputable source and an intelligent individual that actually says: “You should do this, it is the smart thing to do” as opposed to a lot of guessing and maybes.

Therefore I give you this Forbes article in hopes it may supply you with a nice smug grin concerning the superiority of your industry!  Haha!

Mmm… a $300 pc running a free linux distro with a $750 in Salesforce expenses (maybe less!) over a year for IT accountability, inventory and maybe some analytics (for fun)?  Yes, please, now excuse me I have to go and towel off the nerd.

Long-range? Damning? Hm.

Hm.

A cnet post: “Handicapping cloud computing.”  This is a very excellent article about how underwhelming cloud computing is, I guess cnet is playing foil to the legions who say 2009 is/maybe/will be/certainly might be the year of SaaS’ assertion.

I guess it’s always worth it to hear what your doubters are saying.  This one has a nifty chart too, a SaaS chart!  What I don’t think these sort of financial research reports tell you about are all of the little people out there (young people), like me who are at a point where they can no longer do without Google Docs… a few years and I’ll be pushing it on whatever company I’m working for, Docs already has every creative project I’m working on burried in it…

Hm.

A Noteworthy Nostrodamus or Generalissimo Generalisation?

Points for the Rocky and Bullwinkle title?

I think it’s great when someone predicts a bright future for this industry, but when they come back to their predictions a year later and they’ve got it 75% correct, maybe this is somebody worth keeping tabs on?  I don’t know if his predictions were too general (they seem pretty on target, this is no carnival fortune teller) but hey, you be the judge.

Check out Alastair Bathgate’s workforceinabox.com and the post here.

Electronic signature platforms: Close deals faster

Are you looking for ways to reduce your deal close time? Setifi Co-Founder John Stojka brought to my attention a new post over at the Closing 2.0 blog that highlights how to do just that.

Sertifi provides an electronic signature platform that is now available on the Force.com AppExchange.

I’ve been hearing good things for quite some time now about digital document management and electronic signature systems but have yet to hear of a local company who uses them extensively. Is the paperless office a reality in your company?

Post thoughts to comments.

Some excellent with your lunch?

Mmm, toast and tea.

James Kobielus of Networkworld (and the aptly named James Kobielus blog, where I found the story initially) has written something excellent.  Part prognostication and part analysis, James’ article is about the state of SaaS as it is at the moment and how it stands to challenge competitors with it’s pricing scheme and challenge potential customers to make the switch in a tough economy.  I’m convinced.

Now I just need a small business to switch over, ooo, and I could make some testimonials!

Read it here.

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