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Re: The On-Demand Diaspora
Posted by: Denis Pombriant 2008-01-30 15:32:59

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It was a man-bites-dog story in the summer of 1999. An interesting headline at Red Herring on July 30 read: "Head Count: Salesforce.com gets Larry's blessing." Marc Benioff was leaving Oracle to start Salesforce.com, and Larry Ellison was not only giving his blessing, he was going to pony up some capital to get the company running. In exchange, Ellison got a board seat and a bit of controversy when Oracle launched a competing product. However, that's not the focus of this story.

Re: The On-Demand Diaspora
Posted by: afk 2008-01-30 15:47:21 In reply to: Denis Pombriant

Great article Denis. It was interesting to learn about Tzuo's departure and that Benioff gave his blessing as did his mentor back in the day.