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

[Tom Henderson]

He wanted something to be better than HyperCard, as I remember. My late 
friend Sue Spiner did the PR for his rollouts. Quite the To-Dos.

Tom

On 5/29/19 3:24 PM, David Needle wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
>
>
>     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 <http://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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