Salesforce.com is expanding its cloud computing service with a new option that lets customers more easily build external Web sites.

The company is expected to announce the new service, called Force.com Sites, at its Dreamforce user conference on Monday in San Francisco.

The service extends the company's existing Force.com service, used to build internal business applications, to development and hosting of Web sites targeted at external users, said Kendall Collins, senior vice president of product marketing at Salesforce.com.

A boat mooring application built using Force.com Sites.(Credit: Salesforce.com)

"There are a lot of people out there who struggle with the infrastructure demands," he said. Force.com Sites lets Salesforce.com customers publish data and applications stored in Force.com to any Web site. Salesforce.com provides the cloud-based infrastructure services. Read more...

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