Salesforce.com is set to announce that it is connecting its Force.com development platform with Google's App Engine.The news, follows Salesforce's recent announcement of a similar arrangement with Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3).
Google's App Engine, is aimed at developers who want to quickly and easily build scalable Web applications, while AWS is positioned as a more generalized, flexible infrastructure platform for serving all types of programs.
Meanwhile, Force.com provides a database, Java-like programming language, integration and workflow capabilities, and user-interface design tools for creating business applications that run on Salesforce's cloud infrastructure.
Google said the integration will foster the creation of new Web applications and further demonstrate the power of the Web as a platform.
The announcement is the latest stage in Salesforce and Google's relationship, which has also resulted in an integration between Salesforce and Google Apps, and could prompt another round of speculation that the search giant will buy Salesforce.
