Ejected from Oracle’s Open World. An impromptu gathering at a nearby restaurant. Fulsome explanations from PR flacks and tweets galore. The relations between Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Salesforce.com chief Marc Benioff went from wary and grudging mutual admiration, to red hot rhetoric. How red hot? Well, for starters, Ellison referred to Salesforce.com as the “roach motel” of cloud services. That’s what the circus this week was really about: Oracle is encroaching on Salesforce.com’s turf with its own public cloud service. Competition is seriously ramping up.
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A Collision Course in the Cloud
Posted by: Erika Morphy January 2, 2012 05:00 AMEjected from Oracle’s Open World. An impromptu gathering at a nearby restaurant. Fulsome explanations from PR flacks and tweets galore. The relations between Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Salesforce.com chief Marc Benioff went from wary and grudging mutual admiration, to red hot rhetoric. How red hot? Well, for starters, Ellison referred to Salesforce.com as the “roach motel” of cloud services. That’s what the circus this week was really about: Oracle is encroaching on Salesforce.com’s turf with its own public cloud service. Competition is seriously ramping up.