Salesforce.com this week is expected to announce a way move data between different applications using its online development platform.
Salesforce.com's US$25 million venture capital fund is great for developers, say analysts -- as long as providing support costs to a global market doesn't kill the start-ups.
To drive entrepreneurship on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, Salesforce.com will set up AppExchange "incubators" for software developers in yet-unspecified locations around the world by next year, says chief executive officer Marc Benioff.
Salesforce.com is expanding its hosted applications lineup with a new high-end service aimed at big companies.
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