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salesforce.com  Extended outage at salesforce.com  Summary: The
Salesforce.com service has been out of action for a large part
of today, which is bad news for the company and for the rest of
the on-demand industry.  TOPICS: Salesforce.com  Any
salesforce.com user rushing to finish off work chores before
Christmas will have rued their luck today. According to
SalesForceWatch.com, "Salesforce has been down since 9:20am EST.
Haven't seen any update — message on support line does not
indicate ETA."  On-demand outages are a lot like air
disastersHaving set itself up as the poster child for on-demand
applications and the nemesis of conventional software, an
extended outage at salesforce.com is bad news not just for
salesforce.com but for everyone in the on-demand industry.  On-
demand outages are a lot like air disasters. They're massively
less frequent than outages of conventional on-premises software.
But when they do happen, instead of affecting just