Developing for the CRM Cloud: ISVs Weigh Investments in Salesforce.com and Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Microsoft Dynamics CRM/xRM or Salesforce.com's Force.com - if you're an ISV, which platform should you use as the foundation for creating business applications?

Both technologies provide multi-tenancy so ISVs can easily build applications that support as many customers as they can handle. And Microsoft and Salesforce each provide an online marketplace to help ISVs sell their applications and to enable enterprises to find the applications they need.

But which technology is really the better choice for developers?

"It comes down to the religion of the developer and my understanding is there isn't an advantage of one over the other," says Leon Tribe, a Dynamics CRM consultant, MVP, and blog...

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