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So what's then and there? "Every company is going to have an enterprise social network," Benioff said. "Chatter [an internal, secure Facebook-like service for enterprise networks] is in effect a stream of information that can be captured by proprietary UIs like ours, nevertheless we want to have it available as a REST [representational state transfer] API, so that every social network can participate in Chatter.

"Chatter now has over 80,000 paying clients, which makes it out and away the largest enterprise social network in the world. Companies like Symantec and BMC are using it because you can see people working and collaborating in a new way."