Understanding the Design of Salesforce.com’s Internet Application
Development Platform

This paper explains the patented technology that makes the Force.com platform fast, scalable, and secure for any type of application. Force.com is the preeminent on-demand application development platform in use today, supporting some 47,000+ organizations. Individual enterprises and commercial software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors trust the platform to deliver robust, reliable, Internet-scale applications. To meet the extreme demands of its large user population, Force.com’s foundation is a metadatadriven software architecture that enables multitenant applications.

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