Even though it's very straight forward, difference between Salesforce.com and Force.com has always remained a core question for every newbies. I am hoping this post will help you in understanding the basic difference between this jargon.
Force.com is the platform that the Salesforce CRM and your customization run on. The Force.com platform consists of a multi-tenant architecture that runs on application services, web servers and of course database servers. Salesforce is using Java, and Oracle for significant parts of the Force.com Platform.
Force.com is also a platform as a service (PaaS) that can be purchased separately and won’t include a lot of the key CRM functionality like Leads, and Opportunities. Lately, Salesforce has started to advertise an additional cloud called the “AppCloud” which includes services like Heroku which is another server that Salesforce owns.
Salesforce.com is generally used to refer to the CRM functionality only, so this would be the “sales cloud”, “service cloud”, and marketing related clouds. Salesforce is running on the Force.com Platform.
Salesforce1 is the mobile application that Salesforce has developed which is available on Android and iOS. It’s possible for developers to add functionality which can be used in the mobile phone application.
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