November 25th, 2008

On November 3rd, 2008, salesforce.com kicked off its sixth annual Dreamforce Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco. With approximately 10 000 of people in attendance, Dreamforce brought together the global salesforce.com community of customers, partners, industry leaders and innovators to share best practices and propel the cloud computing industry forward.

During this four-day conference, the following significant new technology, partnership and product announcements have been made:

• Force.com Sites: Bringing the power of Force.com to every web application and web site
  We can now create public websites and applications that run natively on the Force.com platform.
• Force.com for Facebook: Where social meets the enterprise
  Force.com for Facebook is a set of tools and services that enables developers to harness the power of the Facebook and Force.com platforms to build business applications for Facebook.
• Force.com for Amazon Web Services: New tools to better enable developers success
  Force.com for Amazon Web Services lets developers easily create applications that integrate the power of Force.com and the Amazon Web Services.
• Salesforce CRM: More innovation, delivering more success
  With more than 50 new features, Salesforce CRM Winter'09 enables companies of all sizes to manage their customer interactions across sales, marketing, and customer service.

In short, this year's conference amazed with exciting technology announcements, influential speakers (Michael Dell, Larry Brilliant, Malcolm Gladwell), and a never-ending energy. Last but not least, we enjoyed the shared stand with Xactium and the many interesting meetings on spot.