Perhaps the biggest reveal at the Dreamforce event is Salesforce.com’s intent to take a more consultative role in its customers strategies, ranging from cloud computing to brand monitoring to internal social software – and especially how all of those components fit together. Salesforce.com has long offered consulting and customization regarding its software-as-a-service offerings, but this ...

Google executive chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt is closing out Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce event. I’m not sure yet what he’s going to talk about, other than “social.” Eric Schmidt Keynote at Dreamforce

Heroku, the platform-as-a-service company owned by Salesforce.com, will launch full support for Scala as early as next week the company has confirmed. Heroku VP of Product Oren Teich says Heroku has a formal partnership with Typesafe, a company co-founded by Scala creator Martin Odersky to provide enterprise support for Scala and its related tools. Scala ...

I’m live blogging the second day of Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce 2011 event – watch this space for updates. Dreamforce Keynote Day 2

Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto created Ruby in 1993 and released it to the public in 1995. Since then, Ruby and the framework Ruby on Rails have taken off, earning a seat at the programming table along side other popular languages like Java and PHP. Matz was recently hired by Heroku, the Ruby platform-as-a-service owned by Salesforce.com, ...

I’m live blogging Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce 2011 event – watch this space for updates.

Today before its Dreamforce event Salesforce.com issued an announcement containing a sprawling set of updates, including new Chatter features, the company’s plans for Data.com (the domain name Salesforce.com bought for at least $1.5 million. From Salesforce.com’s announcement: Chatter Now: Chatter Now will deliver real-time collaboration by enabling users to see when their colleagues are online, ...

Salesforce.com has published an infographic that charts the cost of computing power along with the history of the role of the CIO. Some interesting tidbits: The term “chief information officer” was coined in 1980. By 1988, only 10% of managers had access to computer work stations. But by that same year, IT spending had already ...

eWeek reports that Salesforce.com has acquired both security vendor Navajo Systems and hosted help desk vendor Assistly. The Navajo Systems website confirms that the company has been acquired by Salesforce.com, but the two companies aren’t making statements about the acquisition yet. Navajo Systems sells a service for encrypting data stored in Salesforce.com. Assistly Assistly offers ...

Today TechCrunch reported that Seesmic will announce a new product tomorrow at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce event: Seesmic CRM, a Salesforce.com client for Android devices, the iPad and eventually Windows Phone 7. Salesforce.com only offers official native apps for the iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile. Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur told TechCrunch he doesn’t see the Seesmic ...