12 September, 2005 - 3:01pm

"The Internet makes inevitable the end of software". Marc Benioff, the Chairman & CEO of salesforce.com, issued this bold statement during his keynote today in San Francisco at their annual user and developer conference, Dreamforce. He unveiled the details of a major new initiative, AppExchange, saleforce.com's soon-to-be-released platform for sharing applications and components, an offering Benioff likened to the eBay of the applications world.

Benioff also previewed their Winter ’06 release, which will include major new products and features -- all with "no software". Amongst these will be Appforce (formerly called Sforce), which enables a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond CRM. According to salesforce.com, Appforce is one of the world's most widely used enterprise web services and represents over 20% of salesforce.com's total transactions.

Sxip Access, our on demand identity management solution, is tightly integrated with salesforce.com via the Appforce on demand platform, and enables IT administrators to manage access to salesforce.com as if it were an application running inside their corporate firewall. We will be giving a talk on Sxip Access and its new features and benefits at Dreamforce, tomorrow at 2:40 pm. Hope to see you at the presentation or our booth #714 in Moscone West!