Salesforce.com leaves SaaS; intro new Force.com On-Demand Platform Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS)
Salesforce.com, the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, introduced the new Force.com on-demand platform --- the world’s first Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Force.com features breakthrough new Visualforce technology that will empower customers, developers and ISVs to design any app, for any user, anywhere with the world's first User Interface-as-a-Service. The new Force.com platform now offers global infrastructure and services for database, logic, workflow, integration, user interface, and application exchange: the most comprehensive set of capabilities for building any application on demand.
“With Force.com, customers, developers and ISVs can choose innovation, not infrastructure,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. “Google, Amazon, and Apple have all shown that by revolutionizing a user interface you can revolutionize an industry. With Visualforce we’re giving developers the power to revolutionize any interface, and any industry, on demand.”
Who says they're leaving SaaS? They're adding new services, new functionality ... but Software-as-a-Services is still very much a part of the Salesforce.com business model.