Oracle SaaS-CRM VP discusses Salesforce.com service outage

Missing no opportunity to take a swipe at the competition, Oracle’s Senior VP of CRM On Demand Anthony Lye talked about Salesforce.com’s recent 40 minute service outage with InformationWeek’s Mary Hayes Weier.
In an interview with Weier, Lye discussed Oracle’s approach to CRM On Demand as opposed to Salesforce.com.  In particular, Lye brought up CRM On [...]

Palm shows off their newest smartphone at CES

There was plenty of coverage of Palm unveiling the Pre today at CES 2009 in Las Vegas.  It certainly helped their stock — Palm’s stock price rose over 34% on the release of the Pre, closing at $4.45 today.
Looking at the phone, it’s easy to see why people like what they see:

Large, vivid multi-touch touchscreen
Email, [...]

Salesforce.com experiences a long outage

Salesforce.com experienced an unusually long outage on Tuesday, which had the site down for most customers for about 40 minutes.
One of the really great things about Salesforce.com is their service status page, that outlines whether the service is up and available, down for planned maintenance, or experiencing performance issues.  This is the type of [...]