Salesforce.com has taken an interesting step in stemming the fallout from its recent hackathon by deciding to award a second prize of $1 million to another team of developers. At the Dreamforce software conference last month, Salesforce.com held a Salesforce1 Hackathon, in which more than 4,500 developers were encouraged to build apps using the company's customer relationship management platform. A firestorm erupted over the judges' decision to crown Upshot the million-dollar winner for an app that generates mobile reports for sales people.Salesforce.com Drops $1M to Make Hackathon Results Fair
Salesforce.com has taken an interesting step in stemming the fallout from its recent hackathon by deciding to award a second prize of $1 million to another team of developers. At the Dreamforce software conference last month, Salesforce.com held a Salesforce1 Hackathon, in which more than 4,500 developers were encouraged to build apps using the company's customer relationship management platform. A firestorm erupted over the judges' decision to crown Upshot the million-dollar winner for an app that generates mobile reports for sales people.
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