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Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by avip on Monday June 10, 2019 @01:27PM (#20148817)
Confused why you call SalesForce “front end”?
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Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by ineedasername on Monday June 10, 2019 @01:42PM (#20148946)
I interpreted that as front end to a database.
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Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by initself on Monday June 10, 2019 @05:33PM (#20151092)
It's really a whole working methodology that includes an Object model, which one would call backend.

Did I mention its a nasty fugly POS?

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Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by ineedasername on Monday June 10, 2019 @07:15PM (#20151770)
Yeah, it's certainly more than just a CRUD, and I agree it's awful. I never had to use it in the early years, so I don't know if it's that their original platform was poorly made, or that the accumulation of bloat & bolt-ons is what has made it this way.
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Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by da_chicken on Monday June 10, 2019 @08:41PM (#20152205)
Yeah but to someone who is in to working directly with RDBMSs, Salesforce is 100% front end. It's like how CEs think C is high level, but web developers think C is low level.
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Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by tomrod on Monday June 10, 2019 @06:31PM (#20151521)
Mostly non-functional?
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