Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
In many cases, the end of the year gives you time to step back and take stock of the last 12 months. This is when many of us take a hard look at what worked and what did not, complete performance reviews, and formulate plans for the coming year. For me, it is all of those things plus a time when I u...
salesforce'com CEO Mark Benioff, a former Oracle executive, can be relied upon to provide provocative comments with respect to his company and competition, particularly so with respect to rivals Oracle and Siebel Systems.
Below are initial comments he made in a note to employees in reaction to hearing that his two rivals have now combined into a single company by dint of Oracle aquiring Siebel for $5.85 billion. (It should be noted that Benioff has a home in Hawaii and is known for his wearing of Hawaiian shirts.) His comments follow:
Marc Benioff
"Oracle put Siebel investors out of their misery today. We have been doing that for Siebel customers for years.
Our announcement today at Dreamforce will accelerate that. It's the end of software.
Client/Server software is being consolidated by Oracle just as mainframe software was consolidated by Computer Associates. Oracle's strategy is simple. Instead of innovating, buy as much installed software as possible, call it all Oracle Fusion, and make sure it all uses Oracle's database. Now, the same thing that happened to Peoplesoft will happen to Siebel, it will die. Customers will look for new solutions and new providers. Employees will look for new employers. Siebel on Demand, a joint venture between Siebel and IBM, will be the first to be buried. Siebel on Demand is written exclusively on DB2 and Websphere and runs in IBM data centers. Oracle will kill it. Oracle does not sell DB2.
Now, the opportunity to be the global leader in the CRM market has opened for salesforce.com. Our dream is becoming a reality as the world will move to new on demand solutions. Already the fastest growing public CRM company in the world, with over 50% market share in On Demand CRM, salesforce.com is well poised to become the world’s new global CRM leader.
It is auspicious that this is the very day that we are announcing our new strategy at Dreamforce with AppExchange (www.appexchange.com) and our Winter '06 release.
Aloha,
Marc"
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salesforce.com's Benioff Says Oracle-Siebel Deal "Puts Investors out of Misery"
Marc Benioff, former Oracle exec and now CEO of Oracle rival salesforce.com, reacted to new of Oracle's acquisition of Siebel by saying in a note to employees, 'Client/Server software is being consolidated by Oracle just as mainframe software was consolidated by Computer Associates. Oracle's strategy is simple. Instead of innovating, buy as much installed software as possible, call it all Oracle Fusion, and make sure it all uses Oracle's database.'
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Marc Benioff, former Oracle exec and now CEO of Oracle rival salesforce.com, reacted to new of Oracle's acquisition of Siebel by saying in a note to employees, 'Client/Server software is being consolidated by Oracle just as mainframe software was consolidated by Computer Associates. Oracle's strategy is simple. Instead of innovating, buy as much installed software as possible, call it all Oracle Fusion, and make sure it all uses Oracle's database.'
SYS-CON UK News Desk wrote: salesforce.com's Benioff Says Oracle-Siebel Deal "Puts Investors out of Misery"
Marc Benioff, former Oracle exec and now CEO of Oracle rival salesforce.com, reacted to new of Oracle's acquisition of Siebel by saying in a note to employees, 'Client/Server software is being consolidated by Oracle just as mainframe software was consolidated by Computer Associates. Oracle's strategy is simple. Instead of innovating, buy as much installed software as possible, call it all Oracle Fusion, and make sure it all uses Oracle's database.'
WSJ News Desk wrote: Marc Benioff, former Oracle exec and now CEO of Oracle rival salesforce.com, reacted to new of Oracle's acquisition of Siebel by saying in a note to employees, 'Client/Server software is being consolidated by Oracle just as mainframe software was consolidated by Computer Associates. Oracle's strategy is simple. Instead of innovating, buy as much installed software as possible, call it all Oracle Fusion, and make sure it all uses Oracle's database.'
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salesforce'com CEO Mark Benioff, a former Oracle executive, can be relied upon to provide provocative comments with respect to his company and competition, particularly so with respect to rivals Oracle and Siebel Systems.
Yahoo’s critical negotiations with Alibaba to sell part of its stake in Alibaba back to the Chinese company have collapsed according to All Things Digital, a report later confirmed by CNBC.
Apparently the collapse includes Yahoo’s parallel and intertwined negotiations with Softbank t...
Can you bring services from the cloud to your customers faster and have them adopt it with ease of use or bring the power of bundled services to the fingertips of your clients without creating new rigid ‘apps stove pipes'? Do you want to prevent your business running away to public and...
The Internet highway may start looking like a proverbial New York traffic jam at rush hour soon.
Feel free to substitute any town you like because Cisco says there’s going to be a faster-than-expected 18x surge in worldwide mobile data traffic between 2011 and 2016.
That’s when mob...
OCZ Technology Group, a provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, on Tuesday announced the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCI Express (PCIe) flash storage solution, designed to accelerate cloud computing applications and reduce operating expenses i...
Many organizations have embraced, or are considering, the benefits of cloud computing – speed, flexibility, increased expertise, shared workload, reduced costs, etc. The benefits are many – but so are the risks. What are the threats to cloud security? Which parties assume responsibilit...
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