Rumor: Google & Salesforce.com To Join Forces Against Microsoft

May 21, 2007 at 9:07am ET by Barry Schwartz

Google, Salesforce.com Weigh Alliance to Battle Microsoft from the Wall Street Journal reports that the two companies are rumored to be in discussions about working together to compete against Microsoft.

By teaming up with Salesforce.com, the Wall Street Journal says teh two can compete with Microsoft’s customer relationship management (CRM) software. Google already offers email, IM, documents, spreadsheets, and rumored to do a lot more such as presentations.

We know Google and Salesforce.com have teamed up before, to enable Salesforce.com users to easily set up Google AdWords campaigns.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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ONE COMMENT ON Rumor: Google & Salesforce.com To Join Forces Against Microsoft

David, May 22nd, 2007 at 12:35 pm ET:

Please be true! Google is making my life a lot easier with so many cool apps flying out all the time that mixing it up with Salesforce would be a massive plus for me.

Having used Salesforce in the past the only thing that frightens me is the cost as I am a SEO, marketing person for smaller businesses….

David

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