Online Observations

It has been all over the Internet: the complete integration of SalesForce and Google Apps. But here’s a little bit which is not so well known. SalesForce actually first wanted to integrate with Zoho and were well into development doing so. However, they played a dirty card and offered to acquire Zoho instead, which Zoho of course refused.

This entry on the Zoho Blogs by Sridhar gives out the details about this engagement. It also gives details on how helpful Google was to allow integration with Google Gears.