Salesforce.com is reportedly putting new submissions to its AppExchange on ice for part of the holiday season.
Partners said Salesforce.com plans to freeze the site and close it to new entrants until the company goes live with its Winter '07 update in mid-January.
The news surfaced last week on a Salesforce.com consultant's blog, and an ISV partner participating in AppExchange later confirmed the freeze.
"They say it's just a holiday thing," the ISV partner said. "But I've also heard that they're trying to weed out a lot of these point solutions, so I think they may take the opportunity to do some pruning."
Salesforce.com didn't respond to requests for comment. The company plans to discuss AppExchange on Tuesday as part of a broader news announcement.
Salesforce.com launched AppExchange with great fanfare 15 months ago, touting it as an eBay-like platform for ISVs to sell their on-demand applications. However, the site functions more like a billboard than an applications bazaar. Most of the site's "most popular" downloads are functionality extensions such as new dashboards and integrations with Web sites like MapQuest, and about a quarter of AppExchange's 400 offerings are free modules built by Salesforce.com.
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