Comments on: Salesforce CEO calls site outages unavoidable

Disruptions are expected to become less frequent with new data-redundancy technology, CEO Marc Benioff says.

[mottie]

salesforce?!

on cnets every 5th article is about salesforce. does cnet own them or something? who actually cares? my server had some downtime once too..

[Dachi]

Funny you say that.

Because I was thinking the same thing. I CNET searched for salesforce.com and counted 9 articles and blogs covering them in the last 17 days.

Few tech companies are active enough to be reported on every 2 days and I fail to see what is so appealing about salesforce that they would be an exception.

[BogusName]

They slam Oracle too

Who owns this site?

There is definitely some bias in the reporting.

[DavidWorkman]

Another bias ...

Yes, I agree. I see another trend too ... I would bet that their operating system is on unix or linux. I've noticed that whenever there's a story about server reliability, CNET (and others) won't mention the underlying platform if it's unix or linux. If it's a Microsoft platform, it always gets mentioned. Very biased.

[pdxtech]

They're Both in San Francisco

home town news i suppose.

[SWillington]

Sure... in a world of mediocrity

Marc, it's unfortunate that your company argues its limitations.

[scdecade]

Yep

It would wiser if he focussed on the actions Salesforce takes to ensure consistent, reliable service.

[pdxtech]

Just Jealous

sForce is displacing a lot of IT folks who were previously paid to keep their internal CRM systems going and probably love to say "I told you so" with every little 0.01% of downtime.

Setting peoples expectations that sForce is not perfect, but still up more than 99% of the time is a wise decision.

[alek_nedic]

it's unfortunate

http://www.analogstereo.com/vacuum/miele_parquetry.htm

[chris sullivan]

It sucks

I run a sales team the sells to IT in the financial markets. It is way too slow but head mgt loves the report features (even though the report aren't accurate)