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Salesforce CEO calls site outages unavoidable

January 18, 2006 Disruptions are expected to become less frequent with new data-redundancy technology, CEO Marc Benioff says. TAGS: Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com Inc., mirroring, outage, database software, disaster, CEO, database, San Francisco

Salesforce COO leaves for Web start-up

August 7, 2007 On the Salesforce executive team since 2003, Phill Robinson will become CEO of online content-delivery comany Cachelogic. TAGS: Salesforce.com Inc., COO, content delivery, CRM, CEO, start-up

Salesforce.com CEO: Customization is king

October 10, 2006 Marc Benioff argues that Apex will let customers diverge further from one-size-fits-all hosted applications approach. TAGS: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com AppExchange, sales force, customization, CEO, San Francisco, server

Salesforce CEO's vision for 'business Web'

January 18, 2006 Company further details "on demand" software marketplace, an effort to encourage more Web business. TAGS: Salesforce.com AppExchange, Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, mashup, Skype, Google Maps, on-demand, CEO, RSS, developer, vision, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Oracle sweeps up Siebel

September 13, 2005 Siebel's 12 years of independence comes to an end in the form of a $5.8 billion buyout. TAGS: Siebel Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, Salesforce.com Inc., buyout, Marc Benioff, acquisition, CRM, Newsmaker, database company, CEO, merger, software company, database

Salesforce CEO: Deal is a thumbs-up for on-demand

September 12, 2005 Marc Benioff also takes a shot at the database giant. But an industry watcher sees the buyout as a challenge for Salesforce. TAGS: Marc Benioff, Siebel Systems Inc., Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp., on-demand, buyout, client-server, Larry Ellison, CRM, CEO, challenge, software company, Microsoft Corp.

Gates' services memo draws Salesforce.com response

November 10, 2005 Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff tells employees Microsoft is a "dinosaur" and his company is poised to "demonstrate the next level." TAGS: Salesforce.com Inc., Microsoft CRM, memo, Marc Benioff, Ray Ozzie, speech, Bill Gates, chairman, software company, Microsoft Corp., CEO, response, Google Inc.

Beating Bill Gates at his own game

April 15, 2005 ZDNet's Dan Farber finds out from Marc Benioff why he thinks Salesforce.com can upend Microsoft as a platform provider. TAGS: Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com Inc., Bill Gates, ERP, business application, SAP AG, on-demand, Microsoft Office, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., CEO

NetSuite's CEO chides 'slow' Microsoft

July 27, 2005 Exec says the software giant is entering the on-demand CRM market way too late. TAGS: NetSuite Inc., RightNow Technologies, Siebel Systems Inc., Salesforce.com Inc., CRM, on-demand, SAP AG, vendor, CEO, Microsoft Corp.

Will SAP sample hosted recipe?

July 1, 2005 Rumors are that enterprise software giant SAP will launch a fully hosted version of its CRM software. The big question is, when? TAGS: SAP AG, CRM, Salesforce.com Inc., hosted CRM, Marc Benioff, on-demand, on-demand business, enterprise software, Siebel Systems Inc., CRM software, speculation, business software, CEO, leader

New Siebel chief: 'We can do better'

April 18, 2005 Siebel's newly crowned leader acknowledges his company must improve but rules out a strategy of cost-cutting. TAGS: Siebel Systems Inc., Salesforce.com Inc., industry analyst, CEO, CRM, acquisition, success, conference

Benioff takes stock of software shifts

March 17, 2008 The Salesforce.com CEO weighs in on cloud computing, an uneasy economy, and why Microsoft is still a dinosaur. TAGS: Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com Inc., chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft SQL Server, software-as-a-service, MSN Hotmail, Gmail, platform, Microsoft Corp., CEO, server

Ellison looks to double Oracle revenue

September 22, 2005 CEO wants to grow company from a nearly $15 billion concern to a $30 billion titan--while maintaining a 40 percent operating margin. TAGS: Larry Ellison, Siebel Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., acquisition, Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Open World, margin, on-demand, business intelligence, BEA Systems Inc., CRM, San Francisco, database, CEO

Does the solar industry need a Salesforce.com?

March 30, 2007 SunEdison's Jigar Shah talks about how simpler business models can make solar power cost-effective--even without technology breakthroughs. TAGS: solar energy, Salesforce.com Inc., financing, electricity, investor, Staples Inc., energy, conference, CEO

SAP says it won't join the on-demand crowd

April 14, 2005 "With on-demand," CEO says, "the customer hands his destiny to someone else and then he finds...he cannot get his destiny back." TAGS: SAP AG, on-demand, hosted CRM, Henning Kagermann, CRM, Siebel Systems Inc., hosting company, Salesforce.com Inc., acquisition, Oracle Corp., CEO, agreement, Microsoft Corp., HP

PeopleSoft founder taking on Oracle again

November 6, 2006 Dave Duffield's new company to compete with Salesforce.com, recent on-demand moves by SAP and archrival Oracle. TAGS: Workday, PeopleSoft Inc., human capital management, SAP AG, Oracle Corp., ERP system, ERP, on-demand, regulatory compliance, enterprise application, Salesforce.com Inc., payroll, CEO, founder
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