I just listened to a recent Floss Weekly Podcast about BOINC, an open source middleware system from Berkeley for Volunteer Computing. You’ve probably heard of Seti@Home or Folding@Home as well as some of the many other collaborative projects out there. This got me thinking about how Volunteer Computing and Cloud Computing relate to one another. Certainly, these are not technically the same.

Note: Post updated 28 Jan 2009 to include the trigger code discussed. As SalesForce prepares the Spring ’09 release, I wanted to touch on what I think is an area they need to focus on – Currency Management. In my opinion one of the biggest missing components of SalesForce.com has been around Currency Management, specifically around viewing amounts in different