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Neha@SfdcNeha@Sfdc 

Difference between Salesforce.com and force.com

Till now I assume that Salesforce.com is our sales application in salesforce and force.com is a platform that provides us with an environment to develop and customize the applications in salesforce...still i need to know more difference between these two...why does the salesforce license give us all the access to develop and customize applications if salesforce.com is considered to be our sales application in salesforce?
MagulanDuraipandianMagulanDuraipandian
http://www.infallibletechie.com/2012/08/difference-between-salesforcecom-and.html

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Abhi_TripathiAbhi_Tripathi
Hey Neha,

In easy words,

Salesforce.com : Is SAAS, software as a service, it's vendor of force.com.

Force.com : Its PAAS, platform as a service, its a cloud based platform where we can create apps on cloud for the users.

Regards,
Abhi Tripathi
Salesforce Developer
nbknbk
Hello,

In addition to Abhi, the Salesforce.com - SAAS giving software with wide range of built in features (Workflows, set of native objects - Account,Contact. Cases..etc and workflows, approvals, the Admin can setup the configurations as organization needs)

Saas(Software as a service) model you are provided with access to application softwares often referred to as on-demand softwares. You don't have to worry about the installation, setup and running of the application. Service provider will do that for you. You just have to pay and use it through some client. Examples : Google Apps, Microsoft Office 365.

Force.com - PAAS - The platform giving lot of native featuires which is required to extend the native functionality as well as to implement new features for the org. For example The user can create Apex Classes, Triggers, components, create apps and Deployment, Programming language, 

PaaS(Platform as a service), as the name suggests, provides you computing platforms which typically includes operating system, programming language execution environment, database, web server etc. Examples : AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Windows Azure, Heroku, Force.com, Google App Engine.