Force.com
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Force.com is a cloud computing
platform as a service
system from Salesforce.com
, that developers use to build multi tenant applications hosted on their servers as a service
. The company pushes the "development as a service" phrase, but it has not gained acceptance outside the context of their offering. Other vendors use the phrase, "platform as a service."
According to a September, 2009 Gartner Group
report, Force.com has over 1,000 customer accounts, in addition to tens of thousands that use Force.com in conjunction with Salesforce.com. The Force.com platform runs across eight data centers, with each customer fully contained in a single data center that is replicated for availability.
Several criticisms of force.com's IDE and developer friendliness have been made, including lack of support for multiple developers, speed problems with developing on the cloud, and a failure to properly separate Salesforce.com from Force.com. The platform has been described as having potential but currently only appropriate for Salesforce.com customers who want to extend Salesforce, not for independent developers who want to use Force.com as a standalone platform.
Cloud computing
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platform as a service
Platform as a service
Platform as a service is a category of cloud computing services that provide a computing platform and a solution stack as a service...
system from Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications off-site...
, that developers use to build multi tenant applications hosted on their servers as a service
Software as a Service
Software as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...
. The company pushes the "development as a service" phrase, but it has not gained acceptance outside the context of their offering. Other vendors use the phrase, "platform as a service."
According to a September, 2009 Gartner Group
Gartner
Gartner, Inc. is an information technology research and advisory firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. It was known as GartnerGroup until 2001....
report, Force.com has over 1,000 customer accounts, in addition to tens of thousands that use Force.com in conjunction with Salesforce.com. The Force.com platform runs across eight data centers, with each customer fully contained in a single data center that is replicated for availability.
Several criticisms of force.com's IDE and developer friendliness have been made, including lack of support for multiple developers, speed problems with developing on the cloud, and a failure to properly separate Salesforce.com from Force.com. The platform has been described as having potential but currently only appropriate for Salesforce.com customers who want to extend Salesforce, not for independent developers who want to use Force.com as a standalone platform.