Monthly Archives: September 2008

Salesforce.com Added to S & P 500 Index

Bloomberg and other news sites are reporting that with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac yanked from the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, one of the two replacement companies is our beloved Salesforce.com (CRM).

Bloomberg writes,

“The addition of a company to the S&P 500 may support its stock price as money managers tracking the index purchase the shares.”

Huh? Basically, this is good for Salesforce.com, and it’s an honor. Read up on the S&P 500 over at Wikipedia.

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Force.com Checkout – Coming Soon!

Looks like Salesforce.com’s Force.com Checkout is finally debuting later this month, on September 22.

I don’t have any preview images of it yet, but the hope is that an online billing and ordering system can help the company more cost effectively manage the tons of customers that want to order from an increasingly long selection of a la carte add-on items.

In a note sent out to administrators, we’re told:

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