The long-simmering feud between Oracle and Salesforce.com leaped off the back burner into the open Tuesday, when Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tweeted that Oracle head honcho Larry Ellison had canceled the keynote address that Benioff was scheduled to make Wednesday at OpenWorld, Oracle’s annual conference. “I don’t know why,” Benioff said. But Benioff made his speech on Wednesday anyway — at an event held separately by Salesforce at a restaurant — the Ames Restaurant in the St. Regis Hotel on 3rd St. in San Francisco. That’s a stone’s throw away from the Moscone Center.
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Oracle, Salesforce Feud Boils Over With Benioff Keynote Snub
Posted by: Richard Adhikari October 5, 2011 01:56 PMThe long-simmering feud between Oracle and Salesforce.com leaped off the back burner into the open Tuesday, when Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tweeted that Oracle head honcho Larry Ellison had canceled the keynote address that Benioff was scheduled to make Wednesday at OpenWorld, Oracle’s annual conference. “I don’t know why,” Benioff said. But Benioff made his speech on Wednesday anyway — at an event held separately by Salesforce at a restaurant — the Ames Restaurant in the St. Regis Hotel on 3rd St. in San Francisco. That’s a stone’s throw away from the Moscone Center.