My Adventures with Salesforce.com and Alec Baldwin in NYC - December 8, 2008 at 4:43 pm

Attended SFDC’s Cloudforce in NYC today.  It was at The Pierre — a pretty nice hotel.  Two digressions to get out of the way: love the new Tommy Bahama shirts, was not a big fan of the chicken salad sandwiches.

Mr. Benioff & crew did their job.  Highlights:

One person came out of the keynote and said, "I didn’t get it.  But I can tell you the last thing I want to buy right now is a server."  (Michael Dell should meet him.)

Another, "I advise a national non-profit. They keep wanting to build infrastructure.  I keep telling them not to and now I have more alternatives."

And my favorite, when I explained Lasso2Go and the whole Force.com Sites + Amazon AWS connection, "You can do that?" Yes.

Pretty good day.  And a side note on Lasso.  Today is the first day I’ve used it in ernest.  It’s pretty cool.  I used it to capture every business card someone handed me.

And where you might ask does Alec Baldwin come in? He was talking on a phone outside of Topaz, a Thai place we stopped at (get the Drunken Chicken —- AWESOME).  We — OK, I — gawked.  

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