Salesforce.com has unveiled plans to expand its cloud offerings to the enterprise database, offering a basic service free of charge. Database.com has always been deployed in Salesforce.com's back-end ...

Oracle has dominated the database market, especially following its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. But today, its “frenemy” Salesforce.com will become more of a competitor with the ...

Salesforce wants to move things to the cloud. Salesforce.com, an enterprise cloud computing company, on Tuesday launched Database.com, which is touted as the world’s first enterprise database built ...

As one of the largest providers of web-based customer relationship management (CRM) software, Salesforce unveiled Database.com, a cloud-based database that is built on the needs of developers rather ...

Salesforce has been increasingly looking into PostgreSQL, an open source database, and hiring people who could provide some alternative to Oracle. The rationale is clear: Salesforce needs to diversify ...

While most of the tech industry’s attention was focused on the Consumer Electronics Show Monday, a startup called Attic Labs Inc. quietly made a big announcement: It has been bought by Salesforce.com ...