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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Salesforce.com to launch software marketplace
September 12, 2005
Online store for business applications built with company's development tools is expected by the end of the year.
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Salesforce CEO's vision for 'business Web'
January 18, 2006
Company further details "on demand" software marketplace, an effort to encourage more Web business.
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Who is the mystery Salesforce megacustomer?
February 22, 2007
Latest figures from Salesforce.com show strong revenue growth, as the company drops hints about its biggest-ever customer.
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Salesforce.com buys into Google AdWords
August 22, 2006
Company acquires tiny start-up that built an add-on for purchasing and managing Google-driven Web ad campaigns.
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Salesforce.com users lament ongoing outages
January 31, 2006
Monday's glitch knocked the online sales application offline, provoking a fresh round of customer complaints.
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Salesforce launches software for financial advisers
February 27, 2007
Some 25,000 Merrill Lynch employees are now using the Wealth Management Edition as part of a test-run partnership.
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Salesforce.com continues enterprise build out
August 19, 2005
On-demand CRM company adds additional Web services tools and operational infrastructure in its effort to recruit larger customers.
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Going from killer app to major Web platform
July 12, 2007
Applications that evolve into open platforms--and successful online businesses--are the wave of the future, execs say.
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Salesforce.com's new gamble
July 26, 2005
Company aims to expand reach beyond CRM with new development, partnership strategy. One question: How will plan generate cash?
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Microsoft to ship CRM 3.0 update in December
November 3, 2005
Update will include hosted version of the CRM product and subscription-style pricing.
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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.
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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."
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Salesforce buy extends reach to mobile devices
April 11, 2006
Web-based applications company makes its first acquisition as part of a new mobile strategy.
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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?
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Salesforce's second-quarter earnings on target
August 17, 2005
The provider of hosted customer relationship management tools sees its profits increase by 77 percent, and it also grabs larger customers.
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