Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data » Adam Gross http://cloudofdata.com Linked Data, Cloud Computing, Semantic Web, SaaS, PaaS, more Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:00:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, version 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ paul.miller@cloudofdata.com (Paul Miller) paul.miller@cloudofdata.com (Paul Miller) posts 1440 http://cloudofdata.com/logo144x144.jpg Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data » Adam Gross http://cloudofdata.com 144 144 conversations with the executives shaping Cloud Computing and the Semantic Web. Linked Data, Cloud Computing, Semantic Web, SaaS, PaaS, more Cloud Computing, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Open Data, SaaS, PaaS Paul Miller Paul Miller paul.miller@cloudofdata.com no no Understanding SaaS business models in conversation with Adam Gross of Salesforce.com http://cloudofdata.com/2009/03/understanding-saas-business-models-in-conversation-with-adam-gross-of-salesforcecom/ http://cloudofdata.com/2009/03/understanding-saas-business-models-in-conversation-with-adam-gross-of-salesforcecom/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:08:28 +0000 Paul Miller http://cloudofdata.com/?p=453 Adam GrossSalesforce.com [CRM] is often held up as proof that the Software as a Service (SaaS) model works. Ten years old, and with over $1Bn in revenue last year, Marc Benioff‘s company certainly shows that SaaS isn’t just a passing fad.

More recently the company has begun to diversify from its heritage as the provider of an on-demand CRM application, seeking to nurture an ecosystem of add-ons and enhancements through the AppExchange and offering third party developers access to the underlying Force.com Platform.

In an effort to understand the company’s views on the evolving SaaS and PaaS markets I recently spoke with VP for Developer Marketing, Adam Gross, and the result has just been released as a podcast.

Show notes available on Talis‘ Nodalities blog

Delivery of both application and platform could create significant tensions, as business decisions made to advance the application potentially cannibalise revenue from the platform ecosystem, and vice versa. We discuss some of these issues during the conversation, with Adam going so far as to suggest that ‘nothing would stop’ a third party using Force.com to build an application that competed directly with Salesforce itself.

Have a listen, and see what you think.

Image of Adam Gross © Salesforce.com

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