Takeaways from Cloud Computing Conference Call w/CRM Partners

Citigroup
Brett Thrill hosted a conference call with 5 prominent partners of Salesforce.com. All agreed that customer adoption of SaaS is still early, though growing fast, toward a vast market, and is inevitable. The powerful trend is driven by lower cost and faster innovation, while skepticism over security, scalability, and performance are dissipating (PDF for Citi clients only)

Programmable SaaS? That's platform as a service

SD Times
Alexandra Morales discussed on-demand platforms and Appirio described what and how salesforce's platform has become so compelling.

Pick your PaaS strategy

SD Times
Describes a few of the considerations in evaluating Platform as a Services (PaaS) for your organization. Appirio describes why its more than just an SOA story.