Salesforce users suffer more downtime
News We know that any time that the service is not available, it's frustrating to our customers, and we sincerely apologize for that," Salesforce spokesman Bruce Francis said in an e-mail. Our customers are entitled to their opinions and we respect that...
[February 1, 2006, 8:15]
Salesforce expands platform with InStranet buy
News Alex Dayon, InStranet's chief executive, will become a vice president of product management at Salesforce, according to Salesforce representative Bruce Francis. Salesforce.com is again expanding beyond its customer-relationship management roots...
[August 20, 2008, 8:51]
Microsoft's Muglia: No Azure in a box
News When Microsoft, the company that has the most to lose from cloud computing, enters the market, you know that 'The End of Software' has arrived," Salesforce.com vice preseident of strategy Bruce Francis said in an email.
[July 15, 2009, 16:52]
Google wants businesses to have faith in the cloud
News They want to know exactly what's going on all the time," said Bruce Francis, Salesforce.com's vice president of corporate strategy. The glitch illustrated not just the trouble with cloud computing, but also the gradual progress so far in making the...
[July 14, 2008, 17:43]
Novell merges Linux tech into new product
News Novell's Desktop is a serious contender for the enterprise," Robert Francis Group analyst Stacey Quandt said. Novell spokesman Bruce Lowry cautioned on Friday that may not be the final name. Novell plans to release its new corporate version of...
[August 9, 2004, 11:30]
Salesforce customers hit by service disruption
News Bruce Francis, a Salesforce spokesman, said he doesn't know how many of Salesforce's 18,700 customers were affected by the outage, which began at about 6:30 a.m PST. We apologise to any customer who was inconvenienced by this," Francis said.
[December 22, 2005, 8:40]
Salesforce moves into web content management
News Bruce Francis, the company's vice president of corporate strategy, said that the content offerings will be a "major area of expansion" for the company because it can be sold to all types of employees, rather than only sales and support people.
[April 10, 2007, 7:23]
A Year Ago: Microsoft misinforms users on date bug
News Asked if Microsoft had deliberately tried to hide the correct information about the issue, Microsoft Windows 98 product manager Francis Reay said: "No. However, Bruce Ward, technical director at Prove It 2000, confirmed today that his organisation...
[August 18, 1999, 7:30]
Microsoft misinforms users on date bug
News Asked if Microsoft had deliberately tried to hide the correct information about the issue, Microsoft Windows 98 product manager Francis Reay said: "No. However, Bruce Ward, technical director at Prove It 2000, confirmed today that his organisation...
[August 18, 1998, 15:56]
