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As they say, I'm not dead yet -- many of the companies listed as dead are acquired or very much still alive. (Domo is still publicly traded, for example.)

I had my first copy of the Band's Cripple Creek from the Personics at Cutlers in New Haven...

As the founder of what would become Heroku Connect (aka Cloudconnect), this thread warms my heart. Love to see the innovation - good luck!

He actively promoted a conspiracy that Paul Pelosi was attacked by a gay prostitute. (While Pelosi was still in the hospital recovering from serious injuries.) Why should he expect sympathy now?

Having any object / table in Salesforce > 1M rows is somewhat exceptional; doing that daily (using standard Salesforce capabilities) is off the charts -- just moving amount of data into Salesforce within a 24 hr window is questionable. Its built for B2B, where the data volumes are much lower, and conversely the kinds of operations / workflows you want to do on that data are typically more complex.

This is an interesting topic :)

After Apex was introduced in 2006, Salesforce suffered criticism (misplaced, IMHO) over the fact that it was proprietary. In 2009 it did a partnership with VMware to create a Java-as-a-service proto-PaaS so business logic could be written in Java instead of Apex. This service (VMforce) never worked for a variety of reasons, leaving Salesforce to look for an alternative -- so in early 2011 they bought Heroku. Thats why the first thing Heroku did post acquisition was build Java support.

Turns out this wasn't a great product idea to start (the limitations of externalizing business logic, especially at that time, weren't worth the effort), so the strategic reason for the acquisition was no longer relevant. Years later there were successful integrations that had different value propositions, although those suffered from the constraints described above.

- Heroku generates hundreds of millions of dollars a year in revenue. There are plenty of interesting things to debate about its past and future, but it was not a failure by any reasonable definition.

- Salesforce did ~27b in revenue in 2022; its very hard for a comparatively small business to get resources / mindshare in that environment, especially when you focus on a market / audience that is different than the rest of the business. From a strategy POV, for better or worse, Salesforce is not particularly focused on integrated acquired products - its interested in selling them largely as is to existing customers. Fundamentally its a financial engineering and sales exercise, not a product innovation one. (Not to say I support or think thats the best way of driving growth, but offering my POV on the structural dynamics.)

As the co-creator of Heroku Connect (originally Cloudconnect), thanks! Its been amazing to watch that space mature in the 11 years since we started that effort, especially with the new crop of reverse ETL vendors.

You mistake legitimate questions about the policy with questions about its implementation. The policy, and the issues you raised, were discussed, decided and voted on -- what the article highlights is the needlessly bureaucratic implementation.

Visiting Zurich's design museum a few years ago I had that experience -- just showed up at the right time, and since there was no one else on the tour, I got the full warehouse tour (for free!). It was amazing - sometimes you just get lucky ;)

> If that fails I could see progressives abandoning net neutrality to lean on ISPs to block traffic.

Funny considering of course that republicans abandoned net neutrality years ago.. Now maybe they will support it?

As reprehensible as it is, legally they absolutely are. Remember how country clubs didn't / still don't allow woman, african americans or jews? Common carriers (stores, hotels, etc) are treated differently, and is very much debated. (ie can a bakery deny service based on sexual preference.)

The Attorney General of Texas filed a lawsuit claiming the results of election in four other states were invalid. If that isn't rejection of the constitution and democracy I don't know what is.