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Salesforce.com: Another Valley IPO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rising-tide-of-software dept.

prostoalex writes "It's a young company led by charismatic executive, it shows impressive growth, is located in Silicon Valley and recently filed for Initial Public Offering. Nope, it's not another Google story - New York Times profiles Marc Benioff and Salesforce.com, the company that said No to software applications (mostly Siebel and Oracle apps) and said Yes to hosted CRM solutions (which it hosts on its own servers). Benioff's personal philosophy is interesting as well, as he calls himself compassionate capitalist, believing that corporate philantropy and check-writing should end, but instead the company should allow their employees to dedicate 1% of paid time to volunteer projects in the community." I've used SalesForce for a while now - it's pretty slick. The era of the web-based software package has come.

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  1. eh? by Linwood · · Score: 2, Funny

    a CEO with a soul? I thought the deal was you sold it to the devil to get that high up. hmmm..

    1. Re:eh? by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny

      You just have to sell a soul to the devil. Maybe he used someone's else soul registration code?

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  2. Impossible! by Flingles · · Score: 2, Funny

    "charismatic executive"

    One word. Oxymoron.

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    1. Re:Impossible! by gkwok · · Score: 1, Funny

      What about "compassionate capitalist" ?

  3. 1%? by hanssprudel · · Score: 5, Funny


    That's what - two and a half work days a year? I spend more paid time then that reading slashdot - per week! (And that isn't exactly making the world a better place.)