Salesforce.com has Force.com, a development platform that sits on top of its industrial-strength software-as-a-service infrastructure.
Infor will be launching three new ERP products on Force.com bundled under the InForce brand.
Salesforce.com offers Force.com, which is the development platform and infrastructure for corporate IT departments and independent developers to build business applications.
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We are also more bullish on Force.com and its ability to transform the company from just an applications company to a platform vendor.
Using the company's Force.com platform, Benioff hopes to entice outside developers to build out all sorts of business software to reach his 68, 000 customers.
It will help Salesforce.com gain additional revenues from the Force.com platform as well as from its core CRM product due to cross-selling by Infor.
To increase its presence in the cloud computing market, the company has started to increase focus on popularizing products like Force.com, AppExchange and Database.com.
VMware ( VMW - news - people ) in April paired the two companies up to get Java developers working on Force.com applications.
The company also offers AppExchange, which is an online directory that provides customers a way to browse, test-drive, share and install applications developed on the Force.com platform.
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Today Salesforce will partner with other vendors (CyberU, Vana, Blackboard, Workday, and just about anyone else who wants to use the Force.com platform) to help its customers implement other applications like recruiting, training, compensation management, etc.
In short if all goes according to plan, it will follow the same roadmap of every other product Salesforce.com has introduced from its flagship software-as-a-service CRM platform to Force.com: well-made, well-researched product, exuberant introduction by CEO Marc Benioff, media blitz, followed by new corporate supporters.
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"The policy is in place, " Weeden, a former orbital analyst with the U.S. Air Force, told SPACE.com.
The Air Force news website Military.com reported on this nearly two years ago when Major (Dr.) Conner Nguyen began treating wounded soldiers at Landstuhl Air Force Base in Germany, after he received training from Stephen Burns and Richard Niemtzow, military doctors from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
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The CBOE staff proposal comes at a time when revenue hungry states are grasping for ways to force Internet retailers like Amazon.com and Overstock.com to collect their sales taxes and, failing that, to prod their own citizens to voluntarily cough up the dough.
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Throughout the salesforce.com journey, the company has been a disruptive force against centralized top-down systems.
In January, as attackers hammered bank sites with DDoS attacks, the availability rate of websites at U.S. financial institutions actually rose to 97.21% from 94.86% in the fall, when the first phase of the ongoing attacks was in full force, according to a report from BankInfoSecurity.com.
Salesforce.com has a large direct sales force and a direct marketing model.
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Wal-Mart.com is also emerging as a major force on the Internet.
In an article with MSNBC, a survey conducted by Glassdoor.com states that 22 percent of employees within the job force are worried that they will be laid off in the next six months.
He insists that he can reignite online retailing, using Buy.com as the hub of a web-based direct-marketing force.
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