{"id":9200,"date":"2013-10-15T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/oct\/15\/why-salesforce-is-winning-the-cloud-platform-war\/"},"modified":"2013-10-15T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T09:30:00","slug":"why-salesforce-is-winning-the-cloud-platform-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/why-salesforce-is-winning-the-cloud-platform-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Salesforce is winning the cloud platform war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The future of any&nbsp;enterprise&nbsp;software vendor is being decided today in their developer community.<\/p>\n<p>Alex William&rsquo;s insightful thoughts on&nbsp;Salesforce Is A Platform Company. Period.&nbsp;underscores how rapidly Salesforce is maturing as a cloud platform.&nbsp; And the best measure of that progress can be seen in their developer community.<\/p>\n<p>(To be clear, Salesforce and the other companies mentioned in this post are not clients and never have been.&nbsp; I track this area out of personal interest.)<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The last four years I&rsquo;ve made a point at every Salesforce&nbsp;Dreamforce event&nbsp;to spend the majority of my time in the developer area.&nbsp; Watching mini hacks going on in the DevZone, mini workshops, the Salesforce Platform and Developer keynotes over the last few years has been a great learning experience.&nbsp; An added plus: developers are often skeptical and want to see new enhancements help streamline their code, extend its functionality &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future of any&nbsp;enterprise&nbsp;software vendor is being decided today in their developer community.<br \/>\nAlex William&rsquo;s insightful thoughts on&nbsp;Salesforce Is A Platform Company. Period.&nbsp;underscores how rapidly Salesforce is maturing a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}