“It is time to deliver the next generation of application development and deployment capabilities to the world’s more than 6 million Java developers,” says Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com Inc. (CRM), the enterprise cloud-computing company.
Salesforce.com and VMware Inc. (VMW), a leader in cloud infrastructure, have teamed up to launch VMforce, an offering that the two companies say will enable Java developers to build applications and move them seamlessly onto a remote platform, or cloud. Benioff and Paul Maritz, president and CEO of VMware, say that the partnership will deliver the benefits of cloud computing while leveraging existing resources, expertise and infrastructure.
Previously, developers attempting to build enterprise applications had to grapple with multiple servers within a company, each with its own coding requirements, Benioff reports. But now, salesforce.com says, developers can access their data and information securely stored on its servers, build apps around the data, and drag and drop those apps right onto the VMforce cloud platform. That means less infrastructure investment and faster development of apps with fewer bugs.