What I am reading:
Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research at Salesforce.com, has published a compelling post about “The Incredible Importance of Open APIs” over at the Force.com blog. In case you may have forgotten, Salesforce.com’s web APIs are an integral part of the company’s offerings, with a variety of internal and third party products that rely on these APIs for literally millions of transactions a day (in fact, by January, 2008 Salesforce.com had already served 24 billion API calls).
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Accurate as my statement was, it would have been even more accurate if I had said: “We’re *even* more an API company than an applications company.” Our applications will continue to receive the attention of an outstanding developer team, guided by the vigorous and engaged recommendations and requests of our customers, enabled by the efficiencies of a multi-tenant architecture to address those user desires at a speed never seen before in enterprise software… which will make the still-more-rapid expansion of our API-based community of third-party developers all the more amazing. Rock on.