Flock created quite a buzz sometime back as a potential Firefox killer. It was that illegitimate child of Firefox which wanted to kill the progenitor. It started off with quite some promise and yet...
Sales Force Automation is moving from one-size-fits-all solution model (like Siebel or SalesForce) to solutions / products targeted towards specific market segments. For example let's take a look at ResourceOne from CoreTrac. It is a CRM / Sales Force Automation product for community financial institutions like Banks and Credit Unions.
In an interesting move Microsoft decided to turn off outbound filtering of inbuilt Firewall in Vista by default.