Every few months, rumors spread about an impending acquisition of Salesforce.com (CRM). Google, Oracle, and Microsoft have all been named as potential suitors, yet Salesforce.com keeps plowing ahead and denying that their end game is to be absorbed by a technology behemoth.

“They deserve a lot of credit for being a pioneer of SaaS, or to use their term, cloud applications,” said Michael Fauscette, VP of IDC’s Software Business Solutions Group. “They did much of the heavy lifting to prove SaaS is a viable business model.” Fauscette also believes that Salesforce.com’s recent PaaS (Platform as a Service) push is a good move and should pay off well in the long term… More»