Salesforce.com Inc. announced Wednesday a new offering that extends its sforce hosted application development environment to IBM’s WebSphere application server.
The new hosted service offering, dubbed the sforce Toolkit for IBM WebSphere, allows developers to use IBM’s WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio Application Developer to build extensions to Salesforce.com that integrate customer data stored at Salesforce.com with other applications in the customer’s environment.
sforce has worked in a similar fashion with BEA Systems Inc.’s WebLogic application server and development tools from Sun Microsystems Inc., Borland Inc. and Microsoft Corp. since its inception last summer.