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Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe: Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce EuropeFrom all indicationsEverybody is searching still for Web 2.0. And they're trying to trot out Web 3.0 already?HDTV, Vista, and now Web 3.0. What will they think of next? Flying Monkeymobiles?; Tags: Channel management, Web 3.0, Web, Dreamforce Europe, Marc Benioff; Discussion threads 2008-05-07
Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe: Salesforce.com has come to London today for its first DreamForce Europe event. There have been European customer and partner events in previous years, but this is the first event at true DreamForce scale — 2,500 attendees at the Barbican conference center in the heart of the City, London's financial district....; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Marc Benioff, Web 3.0, PaaS, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Churchill Club: Benioff vs. Plattner (full version): In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com debates SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner on the future of enterprise software. We recapped the event, but there's the full audio. Speakers: Marc Benioff, ...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Chairman, SAP AG, Podcasts, Sales Force Management, Internet, Sales, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-14
A SaaSy SAP vs. Salesforce debate: Is Benioff overestimating his platform?: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner dueled at the Churchill Club in a debate about the future of software and the generation gap couldn't be larger. Benioff brought the bluster, portrayed SAP as a dinosaur and prodded his much larger rival to develop in...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, SAP AG, Updates, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-04
Super Techies: Marc Benioff: In this Super Techies interview, tech star Marc Benioff talks with CNET's Dan Farber about his career as a business entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Benioff discusses his early work as a programmer for Apple; honing his sales and marketing skills with industry mogul Larry Ellison at Oracle; and his current...; Tags: Marc Benioff, On-demand, Marketing Research, Personal Technology; Videos 2008-03-27

Signs point to Benioff to succeed Ellison at Oracle: The more I look at it the more I'm convinced that Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, will replace Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle when he retires. Of course, that would mean Oracle acquiring Salesforce, but Apple got back Steve Jobs when it acquired his Next corp....; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Oracle Corp., Oracle Profit Margin, Sales Force Management, Sales, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-03-24
Benioff: Platform as a service needs a decade to cook: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff reckons that its platform as a service initiatives will take about a decade to truly bake. Benioff made those comments in an interview with News.com's Dan Farber and Charles Cooper. The interview is worth a read given that Benioff and Dan usually have...; Tags: Marc Benioff, Platform, Service, Application Servers, Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-17
Marc Benioff on AIR (and Flex plus Flash): Yesterday, Adobe hosted Engage an invitation only event at which it showcased some of the cool things developers are doing with Flex, Flash and AIR. Robert Scoble was there with his N95 and a Qik account, filming the entire day. Despite it being a closed event, Adobe made no effort...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Adobe AIR, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-02-26
Salesforce.com ascends to the cloud: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff opened his "Tour de Force" presentation in San Francisco touting the prowess of the Force.com platform and his company--1 million subscribers, on track for more than $1 billion in its fiscal year (starting Feb. 1), 24 billion API calls to date, 130 million transactions daily, 210...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Platform, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-01-17
Digging beneath Salesforce.com's platform hype: When Marc Benioff unveiled Salesforce.com's new Force.com branding for its former Apex platform on Monday, it came as something of an anti-climax for the 7,000 Dreamforce delegates crowded in the Moscone conference hall picture by Dan Farber. Is that it, many wondered? A new name — the third in the...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2007-09-19
Salesforce.com and the Force family name: It's taken a long time for Salesforce.com to get hold of the Force.com domain name that the company unveils today. CEO Marc Benioff told Dan Farber that negotiations took a tough four years. But it wasn't because the previous owners had a significant revenue stream coming from it. Their attachment...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Domain, CRM, Internet Archive, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2007-09-17
Dreamforce 07: Salesforce rolls out Visualforce: Marc Benioff took the stage at Moscone Center before an estimated 7,000 salesforce.com adherents from 42 countries to tout a "new force for innovation." After several years of negotiation, the company nabbed the Force.com URL and promptly applied it as the new name to the the salesforce platform formerly Apex....; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Sales Force, Logic, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-17
Salesforce becomes enterprisey, readies for war: As Salesforce.com sheds more of its 'cool' on-demand status and transitions to looking more enterprisey, I notice it has hired Graham Smith as CFO. Fellow Irregular Mark Crofton muses:...about the irony that a company whose motto is "No Software" keeps hiring big enterprise software company execs...Obviously, as an employee of...; Tags: Sales force management, Dennis Howlett, Salesforce.com Inc., Graham Smith, Marc Benioff; Blog posts 2007-08-23
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's big spend: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's big spendMarc Benioff's comments about sales and marketingDan, I respect Marc and what he's done. Why would he claim his investment in sales and marketing dollars is to meet demand? Companies invest in R&D, infrastructure and customer support to meet demand, not sales and marketing. They...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Marketing research, Marc Benioff, marketing, sales, Marc, Salesforce.com Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-05-10
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's big spend: Video: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff delivered a keynote at Software 2007, outlining the companys strategy and position in the on demand space to the crowd of IT execs and software developers. It was basically a commercial, but I managed to ask Benioff a few questions after the keynote.He addressed...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., marketing, sales force, Marc Benioff; Blog posts 2007-05-10
Marc Benioff, John McCain, and Talking Straight: Now that Salesforce.com has injected itself into the current presidential campaign, initially by supporting the Mitt Romney campaigns fundraising efforts, I think a comparison between Marc Benioff and John McCain is in order. I used to think of Benioff as a maverick, an entertaining one at that, and his pioneering...; Tags: Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-04-10
Benioff scents enterprise breakthrough: With sales still growing at an annual 60% clip even at the half-billion-dollar-a-year mark, is it time for Salesforce.com to slam on the brakes? "Au contraire," says CEO Marc Benioff, speaking on last nights analyst call after announcing the companys full year results. Theres bound to be some loss of...; Tags: CRM, Salesforce.com; Blog posts 2007-02-22
Salesforce.com: In 2000, Salesforce.com started selling a basic CRM solution delivered via the Internet. The company was swimming against the tide. Businesses, especially large enterprises, werent disposed to giving up control of their applications and infrastructure to a startup with outspoken and sometimes bombastic CEO Marc Benioff, who proclaimed the "end...; Tags: General, IT Management, SaaS, Salesforce.com, Apex, Marc Benioff; Blog posts 2007-01-19
Benioff sort of amends AppStore Checkout launch date: This morning I posted about salesforce.coms pre-announcement of its AppStore Checkout and Referral Program for AppExchange developers. I suggested that AppStore Checkout, officially due in December 2007, is in part a test case for a Salesforce commerce engine and questioned why the company needed a year to enable what Amazon,...; Tags: AppStore Checkout, Marc Benioff; Blog posts 2006-12-12
Salesforce.com will do the half-billion after all: I will be out later on so I wont be able to listen in to Marc Benioffs noon webcast today. But Id say its a dead cert that Benioff will use the occasion to up his companys forecast revenue guidance for the current quarter. A press release earlier today set...; Tags: Marc Benioff, revenue guidance, Salesforce.com; Blog posts 2006-12-12