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"Salesforce.com is the original cloud company."

I stopped reading after that line.

I really don't like the "I stopped reading after that line" meme. It's basically a way of saying "I am militantly ignorant about the article under discussion because of my knee-jerk reaction to one sentence early in the article".

I think what digitallogic is saying is that based on this heuristic, this article isn't worth reading or discussing.

There's a paradox, then, in the fact that he submitted a comment at all.

To be fair, Salesforce.com was basically the first hugely successful SaaS company. Calling it the "original cloud company" is a bit stilted, but still, they do have some claim to being "original".

To me 'first' and 'original' have a pretty specific meaning that does not translate in to 'hugely successful', that's a yardstick of marketing, not of originality.

The problem isn't the ambiguity of "first" or "original", but "cloud". As "cloud" is basically defined to whatever the marketing department has started labeling as "cloud" that week, "original cloud ..." can be similarly shoehorned.

Myth #13: There is only one type of cloud. Truth: There are three layers of cloud services and deployment methods to support different business functions: Software-as-a-Service (Salesforce or Basecamp), Platform-as-a-Service (Engine Yard or Google’s App Engine), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Amazon EC2 or Rackspace Cloud Servers).

http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2010/12/07/cloud-computin...

Didn't wheels already say that?

I quoteth:

As "cloud" is basically defined to whatever the marketing department has started labeling as "cloud" that week

As far as enterprise applications are concerned Salesforce pretty much were the first supplier to convince CIOs that you could deliver a critical application like CRM as a service rather than an in-house hosted app.

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