Salesforce.com’s latest announcement of its “global strategic alliance” with Google…what does that mean for the world?

In “global” terms, aside from integration between Salesforce.com’s cloud-based development platform with data from Google services, it’s a quest to outlive on-premises software and replace it with web-based applications. A perspective that doesn’t look too promising for Microsoft and the smaller on-premises software vendors.

Behold and despair, the era of SaaS is starting right here right now. =)