Peaches Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 Salesforce Enticing Customers With Force.com Free Edition The initiative lets customers build Web applications and, if they wish, their own branded Web site to be operated on the Salesforce.com infrastructure. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek June 16, 2009 06:00 AM "Salesforce.com often signs up customers who come to its Force.com set of tools and build their first application online. So Salesforce.com is making that experience free through a new offering on Monday, Force.com Free Edition. An application with up to 100 authenticated employee users or up to 250,000 public page views per month will be hosted for free. When traffic moves above those points, Salesforce.com charges $25 per user per month or $1,000 per month for up to one million external visitor views. "We can't think of a better way to accelerate the adoption of our platform than to make the first application on us," said Ariel Kelman, senior director of Salesforce platform product marketing, in an interview. Salesforce.com is pairing its Force.com Free Edition application building capability with a Force.com Sites offering that allows a customer to mount an application as an employee-facing or public-facing Web site on Salesforce's infrastructure. In the past, the firm has offered CRM and ERP applications that could be customized and still run on its site. Now it's letting customers build both Web applications and, if they wish, their own branded Web site to be operated on the Salesforce.com infrastructure"story IWeek - http://www.informationweek.com/news/servic...cleID=217801302 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.