Summa is a sponsor at Dreamforce, salesforce.com’s annual conference. A handful of us are here in attendance, drinking the koolaid and learning about  customers successes, innovative new applications of cloud platform and salesforce.com’s direction – but I thought to pause during my lunch break to share some of the  news released over the past two days – news that that is  especially exciting to Summa given our heritage in enterprise application development.

Audrey Dunning- Summa's CEO at Dreamforce

With the announced additions, salesforce.com is taking significant steps  to greatly improve the openness of the platform to provide wider reach for cloud based applications, reuse of skills and reuse of existing code and application architecture patterns. Key announcements include:

• Database.com cloud based enterprise database  (opening up the Force.com database to other languages and environments within and outside of the Force.com environment)
• Recently announced support for Java (via VMForce with Spring and JPA support to Database.com) and just today,  Ruby on Rails (through the just announced  Heroku acquisition)

I will be taking a look under the hood over the next few days and will  add more perspective. Stay tuned.

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