Salesforce.com will be entering the custom software market with Force. The Force is a platform that will allow developers to create database driven applications and deploy them as services. This is in line with other recent efforts in this area such as Coghead or DabbleDB
I often wonder if such a trend will ever happen in the life science space, where companies or research groups will create similar application frameworks, with scientific data awareness of course, which can then be leveraged by others to deploy data-dependent services, either internally or public/customer facing. To use a really bad example, since it’s not going to happen, the NCBI could develop a rich development framework around their data sources, and application developers could then develop and deploy hosted services on top of that framework. There are some interesting business cases to consider here as well.
If anyone can make it work it might be Salesforce.com. My reasoning is that they carved out a niche early on in this market and they are still small enough to move quickly. It will be interesting to watch
Application platforms – hosted frameworks
Salesforce.com will be entering the custom software market with Force. The Force is a platform that will allow developers to create database driven applications and deploy them as services. This is in line with other recent efforts in this area such as Coghead or DabbleDB
I often wonder if such a trend will ever happen in the life science space, where companies or research groups will create similar application frameworks, with scientific data awareness of course, which can then be leveraged by others to deploy data-dependent services, either internally or public/customer facing. To use a really bad example, since it’s not going to happen, the NCBI could develop a rich development framework around their data sources, and application developers could then develop and deploy hosted services on top of that framework. There are some interesting business cases to consider here as well.
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