Went up to San Fran to take a look at the show floor and the customer traffic. SFDC quoted 7,000 attendees, but we all know that a big portion of that was unpaid (employees, press, freebie show-floor passes). Much bigger and more splendiferous than previous D-forces, but don’t get carried away by the inflated numbers.
Didn’t have time for the techno sessions, just was looking for AppEx vendor activity. A lot of new companies…but a lot of them very small companies with brand new products. It’ll be interesting to see how the product traction increases. Way over half of the AppEx apps are freebies…helpful, useful, but not profitable.
For AppEx vendors to prosper, SFDC users are going to have to get used to paying for more add ons than they do now…
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