You may or may not have known that I am on the CIO Council of Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com is a highly professional organisation that I believe really has its head screwed on.
This isn’t a sales pitch for them but I was sufficiently enthused by my Cloud Workshop day, held yesterday in the East Room on the 7th Floor of the Tate Modern Gallery on London’s South Bank, to gush in this post.
The meeting was attended by twenty five or so persons including some global cloud experts from our hosts but also by some heavy hitting CIOs from major international corporates.
What astounded me is the pace of the move away from Microsoft and towards Linux, Google Apps and, of course, Salesforce.com. Their cloud platform Force.com now has 750 Applications you can download. I don’t think anything in this cloudy world comes free but there are seriously well documented business cases and high returns on investment for treading this path.
In the interest of keeping my posts short I’m going to gradually trickle the seven pages of notes I made on the day into discrete bites on this blog.There are lots of really interesting tidbits. Like for example the market for cloud computing is worth $162Bn and that analysts claim that Salesforce.com has a 2 year market lead on its competitors.
I’ll finish this one by thanking my hosts for a very rewarding day and a splendid meal afterwards held in the privileged environs of the Poetry and Dream Gallery on Level 3 which included a couple of Picassos (The Three Dancers) and a Jackson Pollock.
2 replies on “Salesforce.com Cloud Workshop: Report from the CIO Council Meeting”
I think people are becoming more aware these days and the stranglehold of windoze is being broken. Some great work going on in schools with linux, and of course the netbooks have also been a boon.
We get a glimpse of the future.
hope it is soon…
… problem seems to be the journos aren’t picking up on the potential of open source and the cloud, and neither is business, unless the bosses are techy. And most aren’t. The people are picking up on it though through social networks. Times they are a changin.
chris
Hi Trevor, Thank you for your great insights and valuable contribution during the CIO Council. Thanks also for the kind comments in your blog above. Lookng forward to keeping the conversation going.
Cheers
Simon