For quite a while now I have been tracking NetSuite in the background. Yes, you know NetSuite, its the other CRM OnDemand company that Larry Ellison invested in. Well, today they launched a feature called SuiteScript. While this was little covered in the press it seems, it is actually a pretty big deal. NetSuite basically just threw down the gauntlet to SF.com. You see, the anti-SF.com pundits have always said SF.com isn't a REAL packaged application platform because there is no way to add your own custom code. Even at Software 2006 which I just attended, this subject came up a few times. Well, look what the cat dragged in - an online, OnDemand code customization framework. This really ups the ante for the traditional players and is a very nice feather in the cap of NetSuite as they barell towards their IPO. Of course, as my readers will know, this will also introduce a world of hurt for them and their customers during the upgrade process. But I am intrigued to see how this plays out on a centralized multi-tenant database platform. I have high hopes.
