Force.com free editions

For those of you who wish to use Force.com for your private purposes (HRM, LMS etc) and not a CRM, here is good news. Force.com has come up with a new feature of 100 free licenses.
The new force.com license version lets you create one application for free.

You can go through the edition comparison charts here.

Features of the new license model:
•    the comprehensive capabilities of the Force.com platform
•    one custom app
•    one Web site with up to 250,000 page views per month
•    up to 10 custom objects (custom database tables)
•    a sandbox development environment
•    free online training
 
You can read more about it on salesforce.com

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Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the "cloud" that supports them.
The concept generally incorporates combinations of the following:

• infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
• platform as a service (PaaS)
• software as a service (SaaS)

The image basically sums up the complete cloud-computing platform.

The term cloud is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on how the Internet is depicted in computer network diagrams and is an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it conceals.

Some of the major players on Cloud computing. Microsoft is relatively new into the platform and relies on its traditional .Net for enabling the cloud, Salesforce.com is the solution that actually made the concept popular.
Amazon has come up with excellent cloud computing platform and Google always rules with their policy, 'All good things come for free' !!!!

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May the force be with you.

"Good bye, old friend. May the Force be with you."

―Obi-Wan Kenobi, to his former Padawan Anakin Skywalker before traveling to Utapau

If you are a fan of Star wars series you will understand the importance of above sentence, this was supposed to wish good luck to the people. The force here refers to the being all powerful, maybe the almighty.

Welcome, the modern era of computer science. The technology has evolved from deskware to webware, where the computing does not actually mean sitting for thousands of hours on a computer.
Infact, with more and more net based application popping up it was about time someone made enterprise level solutions available on the web. Force.com gave the answer.

The On-Demand CRM system was one of the many solutions coming online. This was the beginning of a new era.

Force.com did to SaaS what Mc Donalds did to burgers, anyone can make good burgers, but only Mc Donald can assure you that the burger you get will be hygenic, safe and healthy.
They build the proper infrastructure for it.

Similarly anyone can come up with a website to do a CRM's work, but only Force.com can assure you that your data will be safe and the speed of operations will be increased.

The cloud computing market is picking up and there are more and more people coming up with their own SaaS product. I am working on Salesforce.com for past year and I realize this site has done wonders. Literally wonders to the world.

I was amazed at the computing power utilized by the Salesforce.com. With Visualforce you can make magic, yeah... literally magic (If you can't, then start following I will be doing some magic here too.)

All the code posted on the site is royalty free and can be used, but I do not guarantee the code to  work. Please use it at your own risk.

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