Do Is Done 51
Taco Cowboy writes "Salesforce has announced that it will be shutting down its task management software Do.com on 31 January 2014. 'Salesforce acquired the social productivity company back in February 2011, when it was called Manymoon. At the time, Manymoon served over 50,000 companies.' The announcement was made in an email to customers yesterday. The company did say they are working on an export tool to retrieve data from Do.com. It will be ready on 15 November. Users will no longer be charged after 1 November, and yearly subscribers will get a pro-rated refund."
Odd timing (Score:5, Insightful)
Unless they plan to announce some shiny alternative at Dreamforce. A far more expensive alternative, of course. But Shiny.
Hmm...
50,000 companies? (Score:5, Insightful)
Seriously, these ridiculous numbers, like: 50,000 companies were clients of whatevermoomoo.com should not be trusted. No company that can serve 50,000 companies loses business, if necessary it can transform business, it can lower prices, it can do whatever it takes to hold on to that gigantic customer base. More than that, if you have 50,000 companies on your resume, you think it's hard to land business in another 1000? Seriously, SAP or Oracle or Microsoft or IBM or Google or Apple or whatever has that kind of customer base, do you see them just shutting down at some point, disappearing because they can no longer figure out HOW to serve 50,000+ companies as customers?
These are made up numbers.
Why You Shouldn't Trust the Cloud (Score:5, Insightful)
In my case it was little company called Catch.com, [techcrunch.com] which synced notes written in a little app called AK Notepad. Not the end of the world, but intensely irritating when it just stopped working one day and all data disappeared. And when they were too scummy to leave some way of downloading user data after a month or so.
At this point I'm looking at moving pretty much everything out of web based services and back to my desktop, or at least to a server space that I control. And watching ideas like Ark.OS [arkos.io] with considerable interest.
I may not be a multinational corporation, but I no longer trust any company to handle data that matters to me.