Salesforce.com: Worries emerge

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What does this mean for license holders?

From the title someone is worried about Salesforce.com. Who should be worried??? If a company uses Salesforce applications and stores data on Salesforce, should they be worried?

The questions above are legitimate questions to ask. I group Salesforce.com in with cloud computing companies as they seem to share a lot of common elements. This also means they share a lot of common weaknesses.

As a business do I now need to keep stock portfolios and updated financial data on my vendor companies??? Great so I can fire my IT department and hire a more expensive financial team to watch and manage my vendor relations.
If I implemented my own network and hosted my own applications, my business would be reliant on my own sales and business acumen. Cloud computing means my business can fail because one of my vendors fails and I normally don't have any control over my vendors due to the heinous EULAs they normally have.
If Salesforce.com needs to raise capital or gets sold, what happens to my business data? All of my accounts are stored there.

Posted by: mr1972   Posted on: 10/03/08  (Edited: 10/03/2008 @ 07:37) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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