I see your 400k, and raise you a million
February 23, 2006
I was wandering around the Internet today as I tend to do. It’s a nice place, you should visit. Anyhoo – I landed at the SalesForce.com website. Anytime I’m looking for enterprise software communications best practice, I end up there. It’s really a masterwork of a website – and when they released their status page a little while back, I simply had to bow to their ability and willingness to be transparent.
But they’ve got this one line on their homepage where they state their number of customers, subscribers and languages. There is no doubt that their subscriber numbers are impressive. 400k. Four Hundred Thousand. 400,000. It’s a ton for any software company and a true victory for a Software-as-a-Service house.
It’s no small accomplishment and they don’t need me to point it out. But I can’t help but chuckle to myself just a little bit when I look at that number -because our number of subscribers is 1.4 Million. More than 3X.
Just had to mention that. And while we get to count up to 1.4 Million (it takes a while), it’s really our customers who deserve all the credit. It’s only through their feedback and support that our products have matured as far as they have, and it’s only through their success that we’ve been able to come this far.
To be transparent myself – SalesForce is a customer of ours, and we’re a customer of theirs. We’re proud to be counted among their 400k.
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