> Salesforce probably has some grand ambition of becoming a "platform" in which "salesforce" proper is "just" first among equals. I think they started that in

> Salesforce probably has some grand ambition of becoming a "platform" in which "salesforce" proper is "just" first among equals. I think they started that in the late 2000’s and accomplished it by 2011 or so. Salesforce was the first business to prove SaaS was a viable business model and then launched themselves as a generic application builder that we now call PaaS. I don’t disagree with your view, but to me, Salesforce isn't another wannabe platform. They’re the one who figured out how to make that path work. (Also, arguably AWS)