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Salesforce.com has Notes in its sights

This is an interesting one. It would appear that salesforce.com are now gunning for Lotus Notes shops, and plan on offering migration tools. As with red bull, there’s no actual detail as to how they propose to move content out of Notes apps into their own system, but we shall see…

Salesforce.com chairman Marc Benioff, meanwhile, told The Register Notes is losing favor with CIOs after years of IBM pitching itself as a provider of e-services and not meeting expectations. According to Benioff, CIOs are turning to the combo of Google on email and collaboration with Gmail, Calendar and Google Docs, and Salesforce.com for applications.

Read more: The Register - Salesforce.com marches on IBM’s Notes business.

Posted at 01:21 PDT on 24 Jun 2008   |   Categories:    |      |    salesforce.com lotusnotesdomino

Comments

1. They might have licensed red bull from M$.
   on 24 Jun 2008 by Vitor Pereira (#)
2. One of our customers is moving from a Lotus Notes based CRM to salesforce. The migration plan is to export all general data (contacts etc.) to xml and to render all soft unstructured data (letters etc.) to PDF files through a server based task and import them to salesforce.
   on 24 Jun 2008 by Tobias Mueller (#)
3. yeah, well if sales force are so good, why am i writing a bolt on to dominowiki as our current client hates the sales force documenter?
   on 24 Jun 2008 by mark (#)
4. the tone of that comment was aimed at the article rather the previous comment (sorry)
   on 24 Jun 2008 by mark (#)
5. @3,
   
   The Salesforce Documents Tab is primitive however, it comes with the platform and it's easy to tell your staff "go to the documents tab in SF.com to find what you are looking for". SF.com also has Salesforce Content which more like Quickr but, costs $$$/user/year and is not included in your base subscription.
   on 24 Jun 2008 by Bruce Elgort (#)
6. @5
   
   ahhh, that explains it, we learn somthing new each day
   on 24 Jun 2008 by mark (#)