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		<title><![CDATA[Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/crm/?p=1088]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld.Â  The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees?Â  Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:54:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cheap jibe sullies SAP's SaaS strategy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cheap jibe sullies SAP's SaaS strategyYou got it TOTALLY wrong!"The message this sends is that Wookey?s initiative doesn?t have the wholehearted support of SAP?s board."No, that's not it at all. [b]The message this sends is that Force.com from Salesforce.com is not a viable competitor in the large enterprise.[/b] Are you...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Time (and CRM 2.0) Marches On: CRM Integration w/social platforms expands]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/crm/?p=344]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The buzz around social CRM and CRM 2.0 is picking up.Â Â  The strategists are getting out there and throwing fastballs down the heart of the plate (ahhh, spring training. Go Yankees!) and pushing recognition that CRM has always been a strategy, as Gartner CRM Eurodemigod Ed Thompson points out at...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:00:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IBM: Salesforce.com's new best friend?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10098]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[IBM has launched a Center of Excellence for software as a service to help customers implement on-demand software. Guess which SaaS provider is likely to benefit the most? Yup. Salesforce.com.    On Thursday, IBM announced a so-called Center of Excellence statement designed to "assist organizations worldwide in evaluating,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:31:16 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft CRM Online Hunts Salesforce.com]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft CRM Online Hunts Salesforce.comBye bye Salesforce.I don't really think all that many will miss you. The claims of it's leader of the end of software and many other over confident and arrogant remarks have not set well with IT people I know. What is his name though...i almost have...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:49:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Leading consultant takes a swipe at Oracle's Big Bang approach]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading consultant takes a swipe at Oracle's Big Bang approachJudith has it half rightI think Judith has got it part right and part wrong. Oracle's acquisition strategy has put them in a position to bring their customer acquisition cost to about half of the rest of the market. This is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:13:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Larry Ellison: First Fusion apps to arrive early in 2008]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7034]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[For the final Oracle OpenWorld keynote, singer Billy Joel, part of the evening entertainment lineup, introduced Larry Ellison, who is celebrating 30 years at the helm of the company he co-founded.    He announced that the first Fusion applications would come out early in 2008, focusing on salesforce...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:55:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Oracle goes for the CRM jugular]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=411]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Oracle tomorrow will unveil a new generation of CRM OnDemand applications designed both to propel Oracle to the forefront of CRM innovation and at the same time bring a halt to Salesforce.com's expansion into the enterprise market.    Attendees at SIIA's OnDemand Summit on Friday were given a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:38:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Poll: Will Larry let go of NetSuite?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ill be meeting Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite, on one of his visits to the UK tomorrow night, so I thought why not present him with the results of a special ZDNet readers poll? The topic: whether NetSuites planned IPO will ever go ahead. To cast your vote, see below....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:16:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[LucidEra: On-demand business intelligence]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3944]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Ken Rudin caught the on demand bug working as head of engineering for salesforce.com in its early days and then at Siebel as Vice President and General Manager of its CRM OnDemand business unit. Now Rudin is launching LucidEra, an on demand, multi-tenant service in hopes of becoming the salesforce.com...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:08:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Billion dollar SaaS sectors]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=218]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ The drawback of having Salesforce.com as such a dominant figure in the SaaS industry is that many casual observers form the erroneous impression that SaaS is just a handful of companies, largely confined to the CRM sector. Nothing could be further from the truth. To see the full extent...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:38:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Live blogging AO Stanford SaaS panel]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=187]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ I'm sitting at my PC late at night here in London watching a live webcast of Ray Lane hosting a panel on "Has the Software as a Service Model Finally Arrived" at AlwaysOn's Stanford Summit in California, and I have to say I'm a bit disappointed. I thought this...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:57:55 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SAP's recipe for staying on top]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2841]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[SAP CEO Henning Kagermann laid out his company&rsquo;s long term strategy this morning at an event for developers this morning. With an addressable market of $70 billion in 2010, SAP hopes to have 50 percent of its revenues from new products, 100,000 customers (up from 32,000 today) and 40 to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:58:25 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[It's a whole 'nother ball game]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a whole 'nother ball gameThe Name SaaS should be BURIEDAs an analyst covering the [gulp] SaaS market, I could not agree more on the naming convention.  Since SaaS is a new paradigm, we should eliminate the term "software" from any concept of on demand.  At the end...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:22:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can SAP CRM break out of the SoSaaS box?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=101]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  Everyone seems to expect that SAP's hosted CRM announcement, due Thursday, will be just another ho-hum reprise of the Same old Software, as a Service SoSaaS concept that's been tried and failed for so many other vendors. Certainly that was my expectation six months ago. But I'd much...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:01:53 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Siebel/Salesforce.com war of words update]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1869]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I checked in with Marc Benioff to get his response to Siebel exec Bruce Cleveland's note, which took issue with some of salesforce.com's claims about the Siebel/Oracle mating and said that Benioff was "running scared." First, Benioff told me that all the vendors will benefit from the shaking and moving...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:14:57 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Siebel exec says Benioff is 'running scared']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1865]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The influence of Larry Ellison is already being felt as Siebel. Bruce Cleveland, who runs Siebel's product group, fired off a caustic letter to the world countering salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's abrasive comments about the Oracle/Siebel mating being the deathnell for Siebel. I can imagine Ellison cheering Cleveland on in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:50:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Siebel-IBM divorce might test J2EE's promise]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1855]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more interesting questions to arise out of Oracle's acquisition of Siebel Systems is what will become of the technological marriages between Siebel and IBM that fuel some of Siebel's existing offerings.  Although salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff was one of the first to point out the wrench...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:10:55 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Oracle, the 800lb gorilla of on demand]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=24]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Following on from today's acquisition news, a successful merger of Siebel CRM OnDemand with Oracle On Demand ought to create a powerful force in the on-demand sector. Certainly, Microsoft and SAP's meagre efforts now look puny in comparison, to the extent that SAP is probably already taking a serious look...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:25:03 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Full text of Marc Benioff's internal memo to salesforce staff on Oracle/Siebel deal]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1837]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Never at a loss for words, salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff who woke up this morning to find out that his former boss and investor Larry Ellison was now his biggest competitor, apparently issued the following internal memo to all salesforce.com employees:Oracle put Siebel investors out of their misery today. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:12:02 -0700</pubDate>
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