Salesforce.com and VMware form strategic alliance to launch VMforce

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have announced a partnership to jointly deliver, sell and support a
new enterprise Java cloud called VMforce. This was announced at an
event in San Francisco hosted by the CEOs of the two companies.
VMforce will bring together the technologies, expertise and
communities of the two leading cloud computing companies driving the
tectonic shifts in the information technology industry.

With VMforce, the more than six million
enterprise Java developers, including the over two million developers
using the Spring framework backed by the SpringSource division of
VMware will have an open path to cloud computing. Now, CIOs and IT
departments will be able to leverage their existing programming
skills and investments in Java applications and take full advantage
of the Force.com platform to build Cloud 2 enterprise applications
that are social and work on any mobile device in real-time. VMforce
will dramatically simplify how enterprises and enterprise Java
developers can harness the economics of cloud computing without
compromising the flexibility, control and choice they require.

“Enterprise Java developers, welcome
Cloud 2. This fundamental shift incorporates cloud computing,
real-time collaboration and mobile devices like the iPad to meet the
new needs of the enterprise. Now, in partnership with VMware, we are
delivering VMforce and bringing Java to Force.com so enterprise Java
developers can create powerful new innovative Cloud 2 apps,"
said Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, Salesforce.com.

“Companies are looking for solutions
that deliver the benefits of cloud computing while leveraging
existing resources, expertise and infrastructure. By creating a
dramatically simplified solution for modern application development,
VMforce is a significant step forward in offering our customers a
path that bridges existing internal investments with the resources
and flexibility of the cloud,” said Paul Maritz, President and CEO,
Vmware.

VMforce is designed to deliver the
first enterprise Java cloud that is:

· Trusted: Running on
Salesforce.com's trusted global infrastructure, VMforce will
inherit the benefits of a service delivery infrastructure that has
received some of the most stringent security industry accreditations
including ISO 27001, SysTrust and SAS70 Type II. Thousands of the
largest companies worldwide are already working with VMware and
salesforce.com. With VMforce they can leverage the combined strength
of both companies to take their mission critical enterprise apps to
the cloud.

· Open: VMforce will
support
standard Java code: plain old Java objects (POJOs), Java Server Pages
(JSPs), Java Servlets and more through the popular Spring framework.
By building enterprise Java apps with Spring, companies will be able
to easily port enterprise Java apps onto VMforce or vice versa.

· Elastic: With VMforce
applications can scale automatically. VMforce customers will not have
to worry about scaling up app servers, databases or infrastructure to
meet performance demand. VMforce can handle scalability automatically
as a service.

· Complete: VMforce will
provide a comprehensive solution for enterprise Java development in
the cloud, including the trusted global infrastructure,
virtualization platform, orchestration and management technology,
relational cloud database, development platform and collaboration
services, application run time, development framework, tooling and
more.

· Cloud 2: Cloud 2
combines
next generation mobility, social collaboration and real-time
information access, creating new levels of productivity and taking
enterprise cloud computing to the next level.