A tale of two services: NetSuite and Salesforce.com

Summary: I recently spent some time talking shop with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson and Salesforce.com's CEO Marc Benioff about their respective software-as-a-service, hosted application platforms.

By Dan Farber for Between the Lines | March 17, 2005 -- 10:54 GMT (02:54 PST)

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zack I recently spent some time talking shop with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson and benioff Salesforce.com's CEO Marc Benioff about their respective software-as-a-service, hosted application platforms. Salesforce.com has been pushing software frontiers with a development platform for creating new applications and integrating external systems within its platform. Today, NetSuite is announcing NetFlex, which includes features for customizing and building applications that follows the Salesforce.com model of creating an applications platform. In my column on ZDNet I explore how the two companies

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