Here’s How Steve Jobs Helped Invent Cloud Computing, According To Marc Benioff
September 11, 2013
Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Julie Bort.
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is often credited with inventing cloud computing or at least the form of it known as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where an app is delivered over the Internet.
Other people say that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison invented SaaS cloud computing, as he was the inspiration and the financial backer for both Salesforce.com and NetSuite.
Benioff was working at Oracle, in a meeting with Larry Ellison, when he thought of Salesforce.com, the story goes. But on Tuesday at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Benioff talked about his other mentor: Steve Jobs and his role in shaping Salesforce.com…
Jobs was Ellison’s best friend, but that’s not how Benioff knew him. Benioff, a child prodigy programmer, worked for Steve Jobs at Apple’s Macintosh division at age 19 before landing at Oracle with Ellison…
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