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Re: New cloud-based CMS from Salesforce - Site.com

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The price seems out of the ballpark considering Office365 include Sharepoint and Lync/PBX. http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/office365/all-plans.aspx Sharepoint seems to have more features and probably more books, trainings, and materials.

caveat being that sharepoint is a huge pile of steaming shit. just talk to the poor souls who actually have to configure/customize it.

Re: New cloud-based CMS from Salesforce - Site.com

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"Market at the speed of social" Oh my god fire your copywriter this minute. "Design and publish websites, social pages, and mobile experiences in lightning speed with the first Web CMS in the cloud. It's built for social, so you can easily add Twitter streams, Facebook likes, and more." And his boss.

You're not their target market. Corporate marketing departments are, and they love this shit.

It's not a matter of me not being their target market;

"Market at the speed of social"

It's that their marketing copy actually, genuinely and grammatically sucks.

Re: New cloud-based CMS from Salesforce - Site.com

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The price seems out of the ballpark considering Office365 include Sharepoint and Lync/PBX. http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/office365/all-plans.aspx Sharepoint seems to have more features and probably more books, trainings, and materials.

caveat being that sharepoint is a huge pile of steaming shit. just talk to the poor souls who actually have to configure/customize it.

Those poor souls travelled around the world:

http://www.sharepointjoel.com/default.aspx

... some people don't mind doing it.

But what big systems are not big pile of dumps?

Re: New cloud-based CMS from Salesforce - Site.com

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Gotta love the Salesforce domains: http://force.com , http://database.com , http://site.com . I wonder what they paid for these...

They certainly have a lot of single word generic domains. Does anyone have a complete list of these sort of highly valued domains that Salesforce owns? It would also be interesting to know if there are any other companies that own this many highly valued domain names.

Adding on to the domains you listed, Salesforce also owns:

- http://data.com (revamped Jigsaw, an acquired company)

- http://desk.com

- http://do.com (revamped Manymoon, an acquired company)

- http://social.com (dead so not sure)

- http://chatter.com for business like Twitter/Facebook/Yammer app, but this domain isn't in the same league.

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