The news of the day seems to be Salesforce.com's announcement of a new service that it calls DaaS, or Development-as-a-Service, through its Force.com Cloud Computing Architecture. With the new service and pricing model, customers will be able to access development tools and APIs of the Force.com platform (which is also as a service) through cloud computing with a pay-per-login pricing model.
Other than adding yet another -aaS acronym to our list, how important was the announcement? It's hard to say, given that media reports have the tools in developer preview only without a final version release date -- but InfoWorld points out that it should make collaboration among developers easier.
Vnunet quotes analyst David Dorbin of B2B Analysts as being more skeptical, but Dorbin believed that selling developers on the idea would be an uphill battle -- saying that for every one business that develops on Salesforce, 200 do not.
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