Posted: February 28, 2011   by Andrew Mottaz, CEO and Co-Founder

ProtoShare 5 is a huge milestone for us. We've worked on it for about 8 months--completed two releases of 3.9 in the meantime--and put in a huge amount of effort making sure we did things right.

• Acquisition will extend salesforce.com's Chatter collaboration platform with critical real-time communication technologies
• Follows the proven Facebook model of combining real-time collaboration and communication into a single integrated service
• Enables salesforce.com to build on momentum of 60,000 Chatter customers, accelerating the industry shift to Cloud 2

Founded in 2007, Dimdim has created critical real-time communication technologies such as presence, messaging and screen sharing. With the acquisition, salesforce.com gains Dimdim's real-time communication technologies, along with a team of world-class developers experienced in building cloud-based collaboration services. Salesforce.com will use the acquisition to bring new real-time communication capabilities to the Chatter collaboration platform, mirroring the proven Facebook model of combining collaboration and communication into an integrated service.