[Ipg-smz] How Apple got the appstore.com URL ...

[David Needle]

yes! If not his first, one of his early jobs before Oracle as at Apple back
when it's  biggest product was the Apple II.

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 11:46 AM Tom Henderson <thenderson at extremelabs.com>
wrote:

> When Benioff was at Oracle, he brought out the first Oracle on desktops on
> Apple, then UnixWare as owned by Novell (at the time). He's always been an
> Apple admirer.
>
> Tom
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> On 5/29/19 1:29 PM, David Needle wrote:
>
> Well here's a bit of computer history I never heard before ...
>
> At the Salesforce Trailhead conference in SF this morning, Salesforce
> cofounder Parker Harris was giving a bit of company history and mentioned
> in passing how the company had the idea for an app store many years ago and
> created an app store with the appstore.com URL,  "but we nicely gave it
> to Steve Jobs at Apple to use." That's why Salesforce's app store is called
> AppExchange.
>
> He said it was an interesting story for another time. Wow. I suspect
> Salesforce wishes it kept the name
>
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