Salesforce: multi-tenant apps paved the way to cloud

Not quite an 'end of 2012' story (but they won't be far off), it appears that salesforce.com will soon be hanging out the bunting (not sure if they do that in San Francisco) to celebrate its first "billion transaction day" on the salesforce platform. To put this into perspective, salesforce's...
“On-Demand” does not translate, or does it?

So I was at an IT show recently -- no need to mention who it was or which vendor I was speaking to as it's "symposium season" and invites to conference centres are abundant just now -- but a communications person from a country famous for sausages, beer and oompah bands suggested the following...
What to expect from SAP TechEd 2011 + Sybase TechWave

The age of consolidation in information technology has led us to a time when big brand "acquisitions" mean that, increasingly, post-buyout vendors still exist under their former names under their new parent brands.
Sun sits under Oracle, Cognos sits under IBM and Sybase sits under