SalesForce and Google Apps - Website development in the Cloud

Following their recent partnership announcement, Google and SalesForce have introduced Force.com for the Google App Engine. Web developers can now build web-based applications using the infrastructure from both companies.

What's more, application developers can now integrate their applications with web pages using the force.com platform. This new feature allows anyone to build comprehensive and fully-featured web sites on the same platform that is used for application development. As a developer, you build a force.com application, create a front end in VisualForce and subsequently tie the two together to create a website. All you need to do is design your web site using web standards such as HTML, Javascript and CSS.

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