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Cheat sheet: Windows Azure
Cheat Sheet Despite what the likes of Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff are saying, it's pretty unlikely in the foreseeable future. More a bluey-purple I'd say… oh, and a cloud-based computing platform Microsoft... [02 Jun 2009]
$1bn pours from cloud for Salesforce.com
News Chief executive, Marc Benioff, said in the conference call: "The numbers for the fourth quarter clearly demonstrate increasing adoption of the Force.com platform. Salesforce.com reported yesterday... [26 Feb 2009]
Salesforce.com service on a cloud lifts off
News Introducing Service Cloud, Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive of Salesforce.com, said: "This has been made possible through the emergence of native cloud-computing platforms like Force.com that... [16 Jan 2009]
Gates, open source, Azure and the cloud
News CEO and founder of software-as-a-service vendor salesforce.com, Marc Benioff made some big announcements at November's Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco. There have been some big changes in the... [30 Dec 2008]
Google, Salesforce.com put heads together in the cloud
News Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com CEO, noted in a statement that Salesforce and Google agree on how to approach cloud computing and an open environment. We have an open vision for cloud computing,"... [09 Dec 2008]
Is Salesforce.com sitting pretty for cloud wars?
Comment Salesforce.com has long fancied itself a force for change in the software industry - and it's becoming increasingly hard to argue against the logic of CEO and founder Marc Benioff. At Dreamforce... [12 Nov 2008]
'Microsoft, SAP just don't get cloud computing'
News Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has accused SAP of failing to understand cloud computing and slammed Microsoft's internet-based operating system, Azure. Speaking at Salesforce's Dreamforce user... [04 Nov 2008]
Force.com breaks out to the web with Sites
News Speaking at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff said: "The reality is powerful sites no longer need cost and complexity. Salesforce.com has launched an... [04 Nov 2008]
Salesforce.com teams up with web 2.0 titans
News Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff said: "This is really the social graph meeting the enterprise platform. As Facebook increasingly takes aim at business users, the social network has joined Amazon in... [04 Nov 2008]
Marc Benioff
AS Profile Marc Benioff is one of the keenest evangelists of software as a service and has continued to drive Salesforce.com - a company he founded in 1999 - forwards in his own inimitable style. This is the fourth... [07 Oct 2008]
Yahoo!'s board gets shareholder backing
News Marc Benioff Salesforce.com Yahoo! s board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85 per cent of the... [04 Aug 2008]
Infosys launches radical retail tech services
News Marc Benioff Salesforce.com Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan is an unassuming man, who doesn't use his position to be imposing. It's less important for him to be the company's controller than to look like... [01 Aug 2008]
BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down
News Marc Benioff BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its push into broadband and helped it dodge regulator Ofcom's axe.... [08 Apr 2008]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News Marc Benioff Google, Yahoo! and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started... [26 Mar 2008]
Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys
News Marc Benioff Salesforce.com Nandan Nilekani is pretty much a legend in his own lifetime. Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of... [03 Mar 2008]
