Salesforce.com to Become Platform Juggernaut, Says CEO

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, talks about Salesforce's latest moves to build into the new Internet platform with a partnership with Google that'll be announced on Monday. He talks some smack about existing enterprise vendors like Microsoft, and discusses what he's seeing happening in our workplaces due to the Internet.

Tags: CRM, developer, Enterprise, marc Benioff, platform, salesforce.com

 

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Posted by betsson (not verified) on November 30, 2008 2:07 PM

Also how come his company is "salesforce.com" and he barely talks about SFA and CRM. He talks about this "force.com". What the heck. What do they do.

Posted by betsson (not verified) on November 30, 2008 2:06 PM

Robert Scoble needs to be prepared. I was hoping for a good interview

Posted by betsson (not verified) on November 28, 2008 1:28 AM

its very interesting.I couldn't understand what you said "zomme" or "zomney".

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on October 10, 2008 2:22 AM

This guy Benioff is really kind of a bloviator. I cant believe he says his product is the low cost option. The versions that have any value are $1500-$3000 per user per year. This is a load of cash compared to many other options. How can he say he is the low cost option.

Also how come his company is "salesforce.com" and he barely talks about SFA and CRM. He talks about this "force.com". What the heck. What do they do.

I use Salesforce.com and it is ok. This guy makes it sound like it is the holy grail.

Thank god I did not invest any money in his stock cause it has dropped 50%.

Good luck Blovioff.

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 6, 2008 6:06 AM

Wondering why Marc is not spelling out Oracle or SAP when he talks of Enterprise software. Why just MS there

Posted by jamie (not verified) on July 2, 2008 11:20 PM

nor prepared. please prepare. take notes from charlie rose. Marc is awesome though. get the timing down. and open comments robert. come on.

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on June 27, 2008 2:36 PM

Sorry to post this here, I've look everywhere to find an email addresss but couldn't....
at 22:00 minutes into this you mentioned something?? I couldn't understand what you said "zomme" or "zomney" - could you clarify what you said and perhaps offer a link to their web site and possibly any entries you made into your blog about them?

thank you

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on June 26, 2008 9:22 PM

Robert as the interviewer is so unprepared and fumbling his questions. I turned it off in less than 2 minutes. Robert Scoble needs to be prepared. I was hoping for a good interview. Disappointed.

Posted by geekycyberdad (not verified) on June 20, 2008 12:49 PM

Very interesting interview and I'm looking forward to hear about their further integration with Google. Please tell me that he did not say that Microsoft pioneered tabbed browsing with Internet Explorer though.

Posted by rbarbanica on June 20, 2008 6:08 AM

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