Comment by swombat
15 years ago
My guess as to why is here:
http://swombat.com/2010/12/8/salesforce-buys-heroku
(in short, Salesforce is looking to make a credible entry into the "public IT cloud provider" sector - much like they signalled with database.com yesterday)
I thought it was interesting that Heroku was specifically mentioned in the Database.com announcement yesterday. Made me think there was some sort of deeper integration. I meant to go to Heroku yesterday and see if there was a database.com plugin. When I saw the announcement today it all made sense.
As I recall, VMWare's new IaaS will give you the option to run in Salesforce's cloud.