Google Teams Up with Salesforce to Counter Microsoft

The message from San Francisco of the French News Agency reported that Google and Salesforce announced on Monday to jointly release an online project, which was aimed at countering Microsoft's dominant position in the global software industry. Salesforce will provide software services for Google Apps' mail, calendar and documents. Salesforce will also provide technical services to Google through the Internet.

Analyst Sheryl Kingstone of Yankee Group said that the alliance between Salesforce and Google would change the rules of the game. It will change the way people work. Salesforce is the leader in "Software as a Service" (SaaS), which involves "cloud computing" because its projects are published online and do not need to be installed or executed on the user's computer. Google Vice President Dave Girouard said that the alliance with Salesforce was undoubtedly to counter Microsoft, the US software giant, which already has its own suite of software, such as the Office software package and Outlook software package, and Microsoft made its fortune from these softwares.

He also pointed out that we were not suddenly awakened, we wanted to know how to reach the level of Microsoft, but Microsoft seemed to feel affected by us. We hope this is part of a new era of computing. Eventually, the entire market will enter "cloud computing". Salesforce will provide free and premium services for Google Apps, offering each employee $10 per month to use the application software for technical support. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said, "Google and Salesforce always coincidentally release reformative models and concepts on the Internet. Our cooperation can design more online application software and service software, so users can focus on what they care about rather than focusing on a particular application software that supports it." He also mentioned at a media meeting in San Francisco that software and computing platforms will become the dominant service system of the Internet. Schmidt said, "Last year we were discussing 'if', and now we are discussing 'when'. This is a development vision of 20 years, 30 years, 40 years."