EWeek

Salesforce.com to Offer Hosted Development Tools Enterprises that use Salesforce.com now will be able to use sforce to build tighter connections to other applications in their environment via Web services like XML, WSDL and SOAP. But Salesforce.com is also positioning sforce as a way for enterprises as well as software vendors to build their own applications as services.

Comment: This makes so much sense for Salesforce. For an IT dep, sales force was no maintenance, but was also an island. One couldn't integrate it's systems with it, now they can. It makes great sense.