[Rastonbury]

At this point, I'm not sure why SFDC even bought Heroku.. Is there major overlap between CRM users/buyer (salespeople) and Heroku's who are mainly devs, hobbyists and startups (i'm guessing)? Surely they didn't try to buy hero to compete with the big 3 cloud providers?

[nameless912]

Welcome to the existential question of Heroku from the inside :) No one knew what the point of the product was anymore. My vibe is that SFDC's goal was to use Heroku as their cloud provider for everything, and when that didn't work (more due to lack of focus than technical issues), they tried to shoehorn Heroku into the Salesforce platform as a tack on feature. It was all very weird, no one knew what we were doing, and everyone was upset about it. I originally joined the org because I was really excited to help the early startup/small business/hobbyist/student sector, and SFDC writ large just did not care about those customers IMO.