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Do we really need another Social Software Platform? Given Microsoft’s acquisition of Yammer, I for one am glad to see another contender jump in the game. And this one is carrying a big bat.

An Evans Data survey of 1,200 developers, 400 of which are enterprise developers, found that 56% of enterprise developers already use schemaless databases and 63% plan to use one in the next two years. Adoption is particularly strong in the APAC countries.

Among the general developer community, only 43% of respondents plan to use NoSQL in the next two years.

Salesforce.com launched a social enterprise application here at Dreamforce today that will allow companies to create their own private, social networks and integrate with Twitter, Facebook and other social applications.

Dubbed Salesforce Chatter, the application serves as a secure enterprise collaboration application and social development platform.

Social networking has crept into the enterprise with little oversight.