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Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff Suddenly Playing Nice, Weirding Everyone Out
Nerval's Lobster writes "Once upon a time, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took what seemed like inordinate amounts of pleasure in firing off verbal broadsides at each other. In 2011, for example, Ellison referred to Salesforce as 'the roach motel of clouds' and 'a very bad security model.' But Benioff's given as good as he's gotten, swiping at Oracle's early cloud efforts as 'cloud in a box' and 'just another server.' But oh, how things change: Ellison and Benioff have revealed that their firms would come together in a joint effort. They were on their best behavior during a conference call this week. 'The Oracle database has been a key part of Salesforce's infrastructure from the very beginning of our company 14 years ago,' Benioff told Ellison at one point, according to a transcript posted on ZDNet. 'Absolutely the best decision we ever made was to go with Oracle.' Why the sudden reversal? Simply put, after years of sticking with a hardware-and-software model, Oracle now has cloud religion. For Salesforce, the benefits are a little murkier, but some analysts think that Salesforce will be able to leverage Oracle's name to gain a heightened profile with businesses. But can Benioff and Ellison continue to play nice?"
And you won't beat it so you might as well play nice.
True Multi Tenancy for Oracle Databases will hurt a lot of other Database/Instance providers.
Salesforce needs 12c as much as Oracle needs a another sales guy. Period.
They are merely exchanging long protein strings.
This is truly the end of days, as written in the book of stallman.
mmm tasty tasty toenail
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
Of two mice who have erected monoliths to looks down at everyone else, but they built them too high and can't even see their customer base anymore. I could not care less about their relationship status. I hope they friend each other on Facebook.
I would wager Salesforce negotiated a better price on their annual Oracle license renewals in exchange for plugging the product with Larry. Kaching!
Everything I've ever learned the hard way was based on a statistically invalid sample.
So all the mutter about a Salesforce / PostgreSQL linkup was just to scare Oracle into being nicer? I guess it worked.
...with recent Supreme Court rulings. Times are a-changin'!
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It's like when leaders of the US, Russia, China, India, Brazil (pick any two) meet and hold a conference where they smile for the cameras and remark on the strength of the relationship between the two countries. It's just good business sense - you've got nothing to lose by doing that, and you might gain something. Plus, you impress the people at home for showing you can behave like a grownup.
is being sleezeballs.
If Bert and Ernie can make it work, I don't see why Ellison and Benioff can't.
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You are welcome on my lawn.
This meme getting a bit tired by now, I guess?
I will be very glad if I am wrong, but ...
Ever since Mr. Edward Snowden leaked to the world the secret about PRISM and how super-corporations such as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google all play nice with NSA, the US government has been scrambling to get their plan B running ...
For years, these two guys could never play well together, and had been trading barbs publicly, and now of a sudden both of them behave like angels
Either both of them gone bonkers, or someone much bigger than both of them combined has instructed them to play nice, or else ...
Just sayin'...
Salesforce just hired Tom Lane (top PostgreSQL developer) away from Redhat.