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"Salesforce.com is the original cloud company." I stopped reading after that line.

swombat 16y ago
To be fair, Salesforce.com was basically the first hugely successful SaaS company. Calling it the "original cloud company" is a bit stilted, but still, they do have some claim to being "original".
- jacquesm 16y ago
  To me 'first' and 'original' have a pretty specific meaning that does not translate in to 'hugely successful', that's a yardstick of marketing, not of originality.
  - wheels 16y ago
    The problem isn't the ambiguity of "first" or "original", but "cloud". As "cloud" is basically defined to whatever the marketing department has started labeling as "cloud" that week, "original cloud ..." can be similarly shoehorned.
    - todd3834 16y ago
      Myth #13: There is only one type of cloud. Truth: There are three layers of cloud services and deployment methods to support different business functions: Software-as-a-Service (Salesforce or Basecamp), Platform-as-a-Service (Engine Yard or Google’s App Engine), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Amazon EC2 or Rackspace Cloud Servers). http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2010/12/07/cloud-computing-top-25-myths-busted/ http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2010/12/07/cloud-computin...
      - moe 16y ago
        Didn't wheels already say that? I quoteth: As "cloud" is basically defined to whatever the marketing department has started labeling as "cloud" that week
arethuza 16y ago
As far as enterprise applications are concerned Salesforce pretty much were the first supplier to convince CIOs that you could deliver a critical application like CRM as a service rather than an in-house hosted app.
philwelch 16y ago
I really don't like the "I stopped reading after that line" meme. It's basically a way of saying "I am militantly ignorant about the article under discussion because of my knee-jerk reaction to one sentence early in the article".
- andreyf 16y ago
  I think what digitallogic is saying is that based on this heuristic, this article isn't worth reading or discussing.
  - philwelch 16y ago
    There's a paradox, then, in the fact that he submitted a comment at all.

To be fair, Salesforce.com was basically the first hugely successful SaaS company. Calling it the "original cloud company" is a bit stilted, but still, they do have some claim to being "original".

jacquesm 16y ago
To me 'first' and 'original' have a pretty specific meaning that does not translate in to 'hugely successful', that's a yardstick of marketing, not of originality.
- wheels 16y ago
  The problem isn't the ambiguity of "first" or "original", but "cloud". As "cloud" is basically defined to whatever the marketing department has started labeling as "cloud" that week, "original cloud ..." can be similarly shoehorned.
  - todd3834 16y ago
    Myth #13: There is only one type of cloud. Truth: There are three layers of cloud services and deployment methods to support different business functions: Software-as-a-Service (Salesforce or Basecamp), Platform-as-a-Service (Engine Yard or Google’s App Engine), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Amazon EC2 or Rackspace Cloud Servers). http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2010/12/07/cloud-computing-top-25-myths-busted/ http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2010/12/07/cloud-computin...
    - moe 16y ago
      Didn't wheels already say that? I quoteth: As "cloud" is basically defined to whatever the marketing department has started labeling as "cloud" that week

arethuza 16y ago

As far as enterprise applications are concerned Salesforce pretty much were the first supplier to convince CIOs that you could deliver a critical application like CRM as a service rather than an in-house hosted app.

philwelch 16y ago

I really don't like the "I stopped reading after that line" meme. It's basically a way of saying "I am militantly ignorant about the article under discussion because of my knee-jerk reaction to one sentence early in the article".

andreyf 16y ago
I think what digitallogic is saying is that based on this heuristic, this article isn't worth reading or discussing.
- philwelch 16y ago
  There's a paradox, then, in the fact that he submitted a comment at all.