Cloud computing software business Salesforce Enterprise data Service

"Sadie Network" Beijing time December 8 News, the world's largest cloud computing software developers Salesforce.com Tuesday announced the launch of new database.com services to large companies to provide database services. Salesforce.com's move will directly challenge Oracle, the sector's leader, ORCL. According to statistical data, the current global database software market value of about 21 billion U.S. dollars. The database.com service, like Salesforce.com existing products, will be based on the cloud computing model, provided by the Salesforce.com database hosts, and customers will access the database via a secure connection through a public network, salesforce.com including software costs, Fees for services such as hosting and data storage. Salesforce.com said the database.com, which will be launched as early as next year, could also store data such as Facebook, Twitter and apps for the iphone and ipad, You can also store program data based on Google's Android operating system. In addition, Database.com is compatible with application data that runs on Amazon, Google and Microsoft's cloud computing systems. Companies such as Oracle, Microsoft and IBM, which now lead the database market, often require customers to buy software, install software on their own computers, and then hire people to maintain the system, while Database.com provides the most vocal cloud computing model. "This is a new alternative service, and the market outlook for cloud computing is likely to be bright," said Donnald Fieberg, analyst at Gartner, a market research institute. "Fieberg also points out that cloud computing services are truly a threat to traditional enterprise database services and may take years, as many customers are less willing to place sensitive information about their companies in the custody of Third-party service providers." (Sao Feng)