IDG Contributor Network: Managing enterprise application architectures in 2020: the game has changed!

Believe it or not, Salesforce.com is twenty years old. Salesforce was founded in 1999 under the then revolutionary assumption that business applications could be delivered faster, cheaper and more reliably through the cloud. By any measure Salesforce has been a huge success. It went public in 2004, achieved $1B in revenues in 2009 and surpassed the $10B mark last year. But perhaps its biggest accomplishment was to fundamentally change the application architectures enterprises employ to support