Yesterday, Salesforce.com pre-announced a cloud based database. On its face this sounds exciting. Or at least you'd think that from the drooling Tweets I saw. As Marc Benioff, CEO Salesforce bounced ...

Salesforce has been increasingly looking into PostgreSQL, an open source database, and hiring people who could provide some alternative to Oracle. The rationale is clear: Salesforce needs to diversify ...

Oracle Corp. may be about to lose two of its biggest customers. Salesforce.com Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., which rely on the provider’s flagship relational database to support their operations, are ...

Salesforce.com is getting into the cloud database business with a new on-demand service that will be available next year Salesforce.com is getting into the cloud database business with a new on-demand ...