Although any of the following news items could warrant an entire posting to delve into their individual implications, time only permits a quick assessment at this stage. Contact me if you’d like to discuss them in greater depth.

Salesforce.com’s Winter ’07 Extravaganza: Once again Salesforce.com (SFDC) has exceeded expectations. The company had promised to release its new Apex development toolkit at this time, but at its Winter ‘O7 event SFDC added a few more features and new initiatives to extend its leadership in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market.

The Apex now permits customers and developers to more easily and extensively customize the SFDC user interface and reconfigure the on-demand application templates. The new development toolkit also permits extended data model customization and workflow modifications.
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