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Salesforce accelerates Cloud 2 invetsments in Japan

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TOKYO, JAPAN: Cloud computing company Salesforce.com announced its latest investments in Japan.

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Salesforce.com will invest in e-marketing firm Netyear Group Corporation; Toyota Motor Corporation’s open cloud platform development organization Toyota Media Service; will be a part in the development of Ruby programming language in collaboration with Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto; and open a new Tokyo data centre in November 2011.

“Salesforce.com remains committed to Japan and to growing the Cloud 2 economy globally,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. “Through our investments, we hope to inspire and incent Japan’s innovators to transform Japanese businesses with social, mobile, and open cloud computing.”

Heroku, the leading Ruby cloud platform, will lend support to Ruby creator Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto's efforts to further develop the Ruby programming language as part of a broad initiative to accelerate the growth of the Ruby developer community in Japan and worldwide.

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