Right about now, many of you are wondering what happened to sforce.com?  Did I enter the wrong URL?  What happened to the website!

Well, after almost three years of faithful service, its time to bid Sforce farewell. In that time, its fair to say we, as a community, redefined much of what people thought was possible with on demand, Web services and even enterprise applications. And from our modest beginnings with Sforce 1.0, we’ve seen the Sforce Web service API grow to account for over 40% of all of salesforce.com’s total traffic.  Think about that for a minute - the API is almost as heavily used as the salesforce.com Web application.  Thats quite an amazing feat - and that traffic is a result of the innovation, hard work and passion that all of you have put into your Sforce code and projects over the years. So it is with a heavy heart - but much pride - that we say goodbye to Sforce.

But we think you’ll like what we have planned for our encore. We want to change how people think about on demand and the Internet all over again.  We’ve shown that on demand and Web services can not only be every bit as powerful, programmable, customizable, integratable (and also a lot more fun!) than the dreary enterprise software CRM packages we have left behind.  Now we want to show how on demand can be used to make all the applications we use for work and productivity easier, more powerful and more connected.

This time around though, what we do is up to you.  We are going to provide the technology, the tools and resources for you to make whatever your company needs, whatever you think will be a hit, or whatever you just think is cool. We’ll provide a way for you to easily share what you built, find interesting things others have created, and help each other along the way. We call this vision “AppExchange”.

So welcome to the AppExchange Developer Network, your new home for everything related to building, coding, integrating, tweaking, customizing and modding the AppExchange platform.  In the coming weeks and months we’ll be working hard to make ADN a great website, community and resource.  But until then, pardon our dust, let us know how we are doing, and say hello to AppExchange.