Oracle CEO Ellison Promises “Startling” Cloud News Next Week
June 21, 2013
Grazed from All Things Digital. Author: Arik Hesseldahl.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison previewed a series of announcements next week concerning the company’s aims in the cloud computing and software-as-a-service business. During a conference call with analysts to discuss Oracle’s Q4 earnings results, Ellison said Oracle will next week make a series of “startling” announcements with several companies, including Microsoft and Salesforce.com.
“Next week we will be announcing partnerships with the largest and most important SAAS companies in the cloud, and they will be committing to our 12C technology for years to come,” Ellison said. He went on to name Salesforce and Microsoft among those companies…
That Salesforce would be willingly participating in an Oracle announcement might imply that the simmering feud between Ellison and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is waning. Remember the day a few years ago when Ellison ordered Benioff yanked from the stage of an Oracle event in San Francisco where he was about to give a speech? Oracle and Salesforce compete directly in several key areas, not the least of which is CRM, or customer relationship management software, which both now provide on a subscription, or “software as a service,” basis…
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