CloudStock Recap

Cloudstock was a very special event. I hope that salesforce.com puts one together next year. DocuSign team did extremely well. We have had several hundred conversations with cool developers and hosted three sessions on Cloud computing and the eSignature API.

Several things that I thought were interesting:
1) It's amazing how many of the cloud developers have their sights on international solutions. I talked to a guy who was doing loan servicing in France. There was a group of consultants that were doing a supply agreement application for a Chinese partner. There were many other people who are taking their US based solutions world wide. This is great!

2) Mobile is entering enterprise computing. I talked to a developer who is doing a medical records system that will need to be rendered on the iPhone and iPad. Fields sales organizations are now getting connected to the cloud. The trend is undeniable.

Overall there is another big shift that is happening - people are creating apps faster and getting feedback from customers faster. I talked to a great cloud billing company and we agreed to do a prototype together. Our estimate is that we can put something together in half a day. That's right - half a day. In half a day people didn't even put requirements together in the past.

The success of CloudStock proves that our decision to go all in to the Cloud in 2003 was the right one!

-mb

PS: Don't forget that we are hosting a developer meetup in Seattle on 12/15. Register here: https://www.developerforce.com/events/seattle_developer_meetup/registration.php?d=70130000000Fkg2