Are Google and Salesforce going to be partners?
Salesforce has scheduled a press conference tomorrow to announce a strategic partnership with a “leading Internet company based in the Bay Area.” But whatever the announcement is, assuming the partner is Google, it will send a strong signal to Microsoft: Google and Salesforce are aligning against the Washington giant.
Google has known for years that they need a real sales staff to get distribution of their products. Salesforce has a huge telesales team and a smaller direct sales team pushing their products to the enterprise quite effectively.
In the near future users will be able to use Gmail and Google Docs & Spreadsheets offline, with full read/write functionality. The combined entity will be able to offer fully functional offline applications for email, office, and CRM (I’d expect Google to use Gear to quickly create offline versions of Salesforce CRM and App Exchange).
[Via TechCrunch]