I was fortunate enough to get a comment from Narinder Singh of Appirio on one of my recent posts about software as a service being different.  I have not met Narinder personally (yet) but did see him do a fabulous presentation with Salesforce’s Mark Benioff at the Pacific Crest Securities on-demand summit last week.  Here’s his post on it.  Appirio heavily leverages the salesforce.com/force.com platform and the joint presentation highlighted that usage.  It was really great to see an early stage company (and Narinder) share the stage with the Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com.  Very cool.