Salesforce.com and Google are enabling programmers to move data between the Salesforce.com Force.com and Google App Engine cloud computing platforms. The scheme may not be a big moneymaker, but it's the latest step along the path to greater interoperability in Web services, bolstering an ecosystem designed to leave Microsoft's on-premises world in the dust.

Salesforce.com and Google have created a bridge between their companies' cloud computing application development platforms that will let programmers pull data from either platform and use it to create richer, more useful applications.

The two companies plan to introduce Force.com for Google App Engine at a Cloudforce event in New York Dec. 8, Ariel Kelman, senior director of platform product marketing for Salesforce.com, told eWEEK. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Tom Stocky, director of product management at Google, will discuss the latest collaboration between the two companies at the event.

With the new integration, App Engine programmers will be able to add enterprise data from Force.com to their consumer-oriented applications for gaming or social networking. Conversely, Force.com programmers will be able to add social networking data and features from App Engine applications to their CRM applications.

"It's about building applications where different parts of the application are being served by different cloud computing platforms," Kelman said.  

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