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Is Salesforce extremely profitable?

http://beta.fool.com/boriskabinov/2012/08/13/will-salesforce...

http://www.informationweek.com/software/enterprise-applicati...

Looks like the answer is... not yet. (maybe never?)

Hah, good point. I forgot about reality! Can we say "lucrative?" There are certainly some houses being bought with SF dollars.

> Why the big difference? For one thing, Salesforce.com's operating expenses rose 40% year over year to $656.3 million, with big increases in head count as well as research and development, sales and marketing, and general administrative expenses. >

They want to be the market leader so they keep expanding as long as they have money.

They can always reduce the headcounts and becomes profitable.

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