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Salesforce CEO Benioff: Future Software Will Look Like Facebook

Posted by timothy on from the farmville-was-just-the-beginning dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes "Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is unapologetic about his love for Facebook. 'I think all software is going to look like Facebook,' he told media and analysts at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. 'Everyone is going to have to rewrite to have a feed-based platform.' If people can collaborate on tagging a photo, he added, they could easily do the same with a product or business problem. Even as Benioff touted his Facebook love, however, Salesforce is veering away from the Facebook model in one key way: whereas Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg felt his company focused too much on HTML5 for its mobile apps, choosing to focus instead on native-app development, Salesforce is embracing HTML5 for its Salesforce Touch app, which delivers Salesforce data such as Chatter feeds and contacts to a variety of mobile devices."

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  1. Yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I look forward to a feed based version of Photoshop or any CAD program...

    1. Re:Yeah by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "That's like an astrologer telling a room full physicists about the future of physics."

      FTFY

    2. Re:Yeah by RenderSeven · · Score: 5, Funny

      "17 people LIKED your checking account balance"

    3. Re:Yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm not sure why the stock market reacted so harshly to Amy Jones' cake. It was really good!

  2. Shoot me now. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I use software to create art. There is nothing more wonderful than art by committee.

  3. Please leave vim alone by h4rr4r · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a person who goes to meetings instead of doing productive work. Software used by people who do actual work will not be redesigned this way.

  4. He's confused by Dan+East · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He's confusing Facebook The Application with Facebook the communication / social network. Facebook has never been a success because of its software. The software has essentially always worked just well enough to facilitate what people came there for, which is to communicate in a feed based manner with friends and family. I have never, ever heard anyone (besides this guy) go on about how wonderful the Facebook software is. In fact it is always the opposite.

    My grandparents are on Facebook for one reason and one reason only. They get to read messages and view pictures about family members they care about - information they otherwise could not get through any other channel. I'm sure that a very significant number of people are on FB for the exact same reason. That has nothing to do with software, but content.

    Again, the Facebook software facilities the social network, not the other way around.

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