Salesforce.com announced this week, at its Dreamforce developer's conference, that it was getting into the web hosting business. Customers will also be able to build new applications via Facebook API and Amazon web services API. The combined offering could enable companies to build intranets, websites and web-based applications and run them in an environment hosted by Salesforce.com. The new services provide a foothold for Salesforce to offer services over and above its own software. Article [1]