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Many in Silicon Valley expect that it's only a matter of time before Oracle scoops up Salesforce. com at a fair price.

Japan Post is probably Salesforce. com's most well known Force. com customer win at this point.

It also puts Oracle in more direct competition with Salesforce. com, one of the leaders in cloud-based sales management software.

Those who've watched Salesforce. com (CRM) over a ten year period have witnessed a striking example of this trend.

Other companies, including salesforce. com Salesforce. com and Microsoft, also offer software as a service.

Integration of Salesforce. com services with LotusLive services within its CRM solutions helps simplify and improve customer interactions.

I wouldn't go as far as speculating that Apple would buy SalesForce. com, though it would be an interesting development.

Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce. com, had the idea for his firm while browsing on Amazon's online store one day.

How is its own health and what are the implications of partnering with salesforce. com?

In November Salesforce. com, the largest SaaS firm, beat analysts' expectations, reporting sharply growing revenues and profits.

Companies such as Google, IBM, Sun Microsystems and Salesforce. com no longer try to eradicate competition at all costs.

Watching his employees use a new social technology, Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce. com, had an epiphany.

Other companies, including Salesforce. com and Microsoft, also offer software as a service.

Can they actually just simultaneously, transparently move data from, say, Salesforce. com to Google Docs or Microsoft's online services?

The service features include live chat, analytics and perhaps not surprisingly, integration with Salesforce. com.

And I thought I found one with salesforce. com.

This section uses a simple ETL job to illustrate the steps necessary for loading data into Salesforce. com.

One firm that has grown consistently this year is Salesforce. com, the largest provider of such offerings.

Microsoft has also launched an aggressive program to convert Salesforce. com and Oracle customers to Dynamics CRM Online.

provides a model whereby developers use its Apex development language to access SalesForce. com services.

This new service brings Salesforce. com into competition with Oracle not just in CRM but in Oracle's oldest turf: databases.

In April Salesforce. com and Google announced that they would integrate their online services.

The apps are hooked together using Salesforce. com's cloud-based systems, and pushed out "live" to business's iPad users.

VVM also provides access to streaming XML and has additional data services for Siebel, SAP, and Salesforce. com.

Examples are Force. com (from Salesforce. com); Google App Engine and Microsoft Azure.

Some are doing it by going with more cloud computing applications like Salesforce. com.

He founded his second company in Palo Alto in 2005 and sold this company to Salesforce. com, becoming VP of Product Management.

And it gives Salesforce. com a greater chance at extending deeper into the Microsoft installed base.

Luckily for Benioff, Salesforce. com also has a team of smart developers.

Such services allow developers to write applications for the web and mobile devices.

The key with Japan Post: It's not using Salesforce. com's CRM applications.

You can do so after you have imported all the metadata from both the Oracle database and Salesforce. com.

It points to vendors such as Amazon. com, Google, Microsoft and salesforce. com.

For Salesforce. com a 100, 000 ops load was used because of a platform limitation.

With Salesforce. com on its side too now, the future looks secure for them.

Salesforce runs on multiple instances, such as na1. salesforce. com or na2. salesforce. com, to improve reliability and performance.

a software firm, tries to measure the impact of its volunteer programmes, which involved 85% of its employees last year.

Next week I am at the Salesforce. com Dreamforce 2008 event in San Francisco.

Look out - 2011 is going to be a big year for Salesforce. com

Each software components in Figure 1 plays a different role in designing and executing the ETL jobs for Salesforce. com