Salesforce Adds Dell Subscriptions

By Digital Trends Staff September 5, 2007

Salesforce.com has announced that Dell, the PC maker, intends to vastly increase its subscriptions of the company’s Web-delivered software, rising from 15,000 to a whopping 40,000.

That comes on the back of an order of 40,000 subscriptions from the Japanese post office (which, evidently, is also the world’s largest savings bank).

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It shows that the “on demand” subscription model for software delivered over the Internet could be the way forward, rather than the traditional method of buying a license for applications loaded onto a computer hard drive.

“It’s a landmark transaction,” said Salesforce Chief Executive Benioff. “You really get the feeling that Japan is poised to become the second huge market for on-demandcomputing.” Estimates are that the global revenue from Web-delivered software will rise from this year’s $5.1 billion to $11.5 billion by 2011. But with the growth in themarket comes the competition. Microsoft will roll out its own version of Web-delivered business software in the next month of two, and SAP is also preparing a Web-delivered service.

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