Google, Salesorce.com and the Application Cloud

So Google and Saleforce.com have teamed up by integrating Google Apps with the Saleforce platform. Company spokespeople are talking about “Cloud computing for the enterprise”… I’m not sure what Enterprise they speak of… Have you ever tried using Google Apps – the calendar, spreadsheet, and presentation designer stuff? This stuff is not enterprise ready. Sure, it’s cool - and the ability to grab domain names and host simple apps is powerful for small businesses.

Now Google has their Google App Engine – with the Python API to enable you to write apps to their proprietary interface. This offering has been mentioned with the Salesforce collaboration. I have no doubt that this will be used for people to create new apps for social networking or mabye small business/productivity apps. But again, you don’t write enterprise apps with a scripting language like Python.

I do find it encouraging that people are beginning to understand and push the concept of an application cloud – an IT architecture that makes it easy to role out new apps to an efficiently managed platform – with capacity on-demand. Whether you call it utility, cloud, or grid, the idea is to simplify deploying and managing applications, while removing the requirement that applications must be dedicated to pre-configured servers.

DataSynapse is teaming up with some of the managed service providers to create true enterprise applications in the cloud…like Seibel, Informatica, WebSphere, Oracle, and Microsoft apps… not Python-based Websites. SalesForce has a motto that you might have heard before: “Software is dead”… Someone from IBM or Oracle might have something to say about that.

Comments

[Aiwu]

absolutely Correct, software is dying, but at least 10 years more. software service is increasingly emerging, similarly, at least 10 years more for popularity, especially in a worldwide IT market, more years are need. you know, The World is Flat.