Cloud Economies

I was present in Dreamforce 2009, salesforce annual mega event held at Francisco. This year we have around 19000+ whether they are partners, customers or coming in.

Last year crowds were at 10000 now they have increased to almost 100%. That's how On-Demand / Cloud generates interest in these days of recession.

Marc was little less aggressive :) this time during his keynote. But he is aggressive rolling out new product strategies and setting direction to his company.

He unveiled Chatter new collaboration cloud from salesforce which is combination of facebook and twitter. He was honest in saying he is trying to bring facebook and twitter innovations to enterprises.

Its just struck to me that just one month back one CEO of global company asked me whether he can get some thing simple like facebook or twitter that can be used for Collaboration. He seems to be cluttered with all tools.

This drives point what Marc has been saying in keynote. When we can collaborate with strangers on net with these platforms why cannot we do the same with our own employees.

Great concept and I am sure it would have wider acceptance. As the current generation grows with facebook and twitter its logical for them to expect similar tools in their workplace.

I always have a feeling with clouds that they grow as large as economies. Look at ecosystem of force.com with its huge set of customers, partners, transactions etc etc. I guess its time near for them to outgrow terms of GDP than most of nations out there.

Its time for us to have cloud economics. Economists should take a look at them seriously. As internet, cloud concept is going to stay and change the way we do business. When businesses succeed they create large trade areas and when trade happens its going to impact economies.

And saleforce with its force.com would be leading cloud economy in near future.

Well done Marc, you had built a nation barring boundaries in business.