not bad for an ASP “… privately held Salesforce has 2,800 companies that pay it to manage about 50,000 people worldwide, and it is on track to record some $25 million in revenue this year. “The quality of our revenue is special because it’s an annuity, so we know within 1 [percent] to 2 percent what we’ll have in revenue next month,” he says. The company has cash on hand to take it to breakeven early next year, Benioff says. “Our gross margins are on the order of 70 percent, and we could break even sooner, but we are investing in R&D, marketing, branding and increasing our enterprise capability.”

Trillian is an IM client, which currently supports AOL IM, ICQ, MSN
Messenger, IRC, and Yahoo! Messenger. It’s just over a year old and after
using it for a week it feels more stable than any Jabber client I’ve used
and worth the download if you need to cross-IM with people. (sorry dave, no
mac client ;-)
http://www.trillian.cc/

EverNet to debut peer-to-peer software that designed to be used as a content delivery network (CDN) … “Basically EverNet uses a thin client that lets users on a corporate network – or on the Internet – act as content receivers and distributors.”

“Tough economy may boost app hosting’s appeal, even among larger companies”

From: InformationWeek

found this post about Microsoft’s Farsite on Geeknews, but it sounds a lot like Ian Clarke’s “distributed decentralized information storage and retrieval system” (i.e. Freenet)

a good article and reviews in InfoWold about how P2P is becoming a core part of the enterprise:

From: Infiltrating the enterprise
“Content networks are leading the charge to formalize p-to-p technologies to reduce corporate costs and increase collaboration”

Reviews:
+ NextPage
+ Groove and HornShark

“As a browser company, Netscape laid the groundwork for the portal businesses it now finds itself struggling to compete against. Portals don’t spark the same fire they did just a short while ago. Excite.com, Yahoo, AltaVista and others have all lost their luster in recent months as they have found revenue much more difficult to attract than readers.” … However, $5B from AOL a few years ago isn’t something i’d cry about …

i must be missing something because this article talks about Juice and KnowNow as if they are doing something special by using “messaging technology” to facilitate enterprise application integration … to me it sounds a lot like a framework for web services. am i wrong?

Dan Bricklin has started a good primer on P2P vocabulary and how it fits into the computing world.

interesting essay on slashdot: “Not only am I unsure of what changes are coming down the road, I don’t think I dare predict whether they’re going to be changes for the better or worse. But whatever happens over the next decade or two … peer-to-peer music trading, legal or otherwise, is going to shake things up big-time.”

From: Slashdot | Sheet Music to Napster: Music Distribution Tech