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Lot of Salesforce haters here. A couple of counterpoints to reactions: -Remember that Salesforce is targeting large enterprise deals. Sure they want to be de
by jpwagner 16y ago
Lot of Salesforce haters here. A couple of counterpoints to reactions:
-Remember that Salesforce is targeting large enterprise deals. Sure they want to be developer friendly, but "in the cloud" is overused because there are so many legacy on-premise SAP/Oracle/etc systems.
-The costs should not be compared to AWS, but instead to AWS + the cost of a developer headcount. One of Salesforce's goals it seems is to make it so once implemented minor changes to structure and process are able to be done by business users.
- icey 16y agoI was just checking out force.com and left pretty quickly after discovering they want $50 / user per month. Makes it pretty hard to make money that way.
- jpwagner 16y agoMakes it pretty hard to make money that way. You say that as if it's hypothetical...but actually their numbers are great. http://www.wikinvest.com/wiki/Crm http://www.wikinvest.com/wiki/Crm $50/month means it pays for itself if you save that user ~1 hour in that month (ie less than 1% productivity increase.) If you take a cab from A to B, it costs way more than driving yourself, but you don't have to own a car or know how to drive.
- icey 16y agoSorry, let me clarify. It makes it hard for me to make money using their platform if I have to pay them $50 / user / month. Clearly it's very profitable for Salesforce.