"Every enterprise I have worked at/with had Salesforce, but I've never seen or heard about anyone use it. (What do they even do?) I feel like it's one of those companies that's good at selling but not really building product(s) people actually use."
Salesforce is a webapp. It's a big, giant, monster database driven webapp that should be immediately familiar to anyone who has built any kind of business Intranet.
The actual salesforce product is (IMO) not that interesting.
However it turns out that lots of huge companies were buying Oracle database deployments almost solely for the purpose of building webapps that do what salesforce does.
So, nobody is buying salesforce instead of Oracle - that's silly, since salesforce isn't a RDBMS. Instead, they are using salesforce instead of building their own internal webapp - which just happened to run on Oracle. Which means fewer Oracle licenses get sold.
Salesforce is a webapp. It's a big, giant, monster database driven webapp that should be immediately familiar to anyone who has built any kind of business Intranet.
The actual salesforce product is (IMO) not that interesting.
However it turns out that lots of huge companies were buying Oracle database deployments almost solely for the purpose of building webapps that do what salesforce does.
So, nobody is buying salesforce instead of Oracle - that's silly, since salesforce isn't a RDBMS. Instead, they are using salesforce instead of building their own internal webapp - which just happened to run on Oracle. Which means fewer Oracle licenses get sold.
Do I have that right ?