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.com has unveiled a stand-alone cloud database offering called Database.com, to be launched in 2011. The service, announced at the Dreamforce.com conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, ...

Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled Database.com, which it called the first enterprise database for the cloud. This is “the exact same database technology” as Salesforce.com’s existing database but is ...

Oracle has dominated the database market, especially following its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. But today, its “frenemy” Salesforce.com will become more of a competitor with the ...