Nickname: Matt

Review: This article focuses exclusively on CRM. There are other companies that are applying the hosted model to different segments of software. Taleo, for instance, is an on-demand talent management company with a great product and strong growth. Also, saying that SAP is going to see significant revenue growth in '06 from their on-demand offerings is ridiculous. Even Siebel, whom the interviewee describes as the other leader in this space, didn't have much revenue to show for their on-demand offerings before being bought by Siebel.

Date reviewed: Feb 10, 2006 6:00 PM

Nickname: finlook

Review: The article does not mention e-commerce on demand, a growing segment as well. Traditional license player in commerces, are now offering an OnDemand package for Commerce (as well as for e-service offerings). They also have the advantage of the "try before you buy" model as you can get in the game with their hosted stuff and then move to license if your business grows or if you just want the data in house.

Date reviewed: Feb 10, 2006 3:56 PM

Nickname: Dave

Review: Another emerging On-Demand application to watch is SpringCM. They've recently relaunched their Internet- based content management system. Very useful, friendly, and intuitive. They're small but growing fast. For full-disclosure, I'm a customer of theirs.

Date reviewed: Feb 10, 2006 3:23 PM

Nickname: CRMonDemand

Review: This article is missing RightNow Technologies, which was doing on demand customer-relationship management before Salesforce.com was even founded. The company is public (Nasdaq: RNOW), has over 30 consecutive quarters of revenue growth, is profitable, is projecting at least 40 percent revenue growth for 2006, and has a more complete, true CRM package than Salesforce.com.

Date reviewed: Feb 9, 2006 11:34 PM

Nickname: Samir D

Review: Interesting discussion on "on demand" vs. enterprise software installations. The SAP's and Oracle's of the world have the advantage of going with a "try before you buy" message. Try it on demand for a while and when you're ready to bring it in house, they also offer a "behind the firewall" application for their customers. It will be interesting to see how Salesforce.com counters this message.

Date reviewed: Feb 9, 2006 12:46 AM

Nickname: DFerguson

Review: I absolutely agree. The threat comes from the upstart. You should see what we are building at iDynaTECH in regards to "on-demand." We absolutely intend to be a threat to the status-quo.

Date reviewed: Feb 8, 2006 10:00 PM

Nickname: Marcelo Galperin

Review: One of "the keys" to the salesforce.com's success is the "creation of economy of scale in the technology infrastructure stack" (hardware, operating system, database & aplication). This can only be achieved in the salesforce.com "Unique Multi-Tenant" architecture which allows to have 20,000 companies working on one "Virtual Aplication Server". Can you imagine SAP managing an upgrading 20,000 servers, operating systems, databases, applications, conifgurations and customization?

Date reviewed: Feb 8, 2006 4:08 PM

Nickname: CRMCRM

Review: Netsuite is also going public. They are in the same space, except they focus on other on demand applications such as ERP for small business. The real threat to salesforce.com will not come from the big boys, rather from the small ones, such as Salesboom.com and Entellium.com.

Date reviewed: Feb 8, 2006 2:57 PM