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Tale of the Tape: Ellison vs. Benioff in the Battle for the Cloud
By In a battle of the billionaires, Larry Ellison of Oracle and Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com squared off over competing visions of the cloud computing market. The battle started with Ellison canceling Benioff's OpenWorld keynote address and ended when Benioff staged a PR coup by holding his talk anyway at an alternate location across the street from the Oracle show.
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Ellison wins "mustache with more functionality"
I guess I have to agree with Chris Nordman on this one - about the only thing that really matters in this infographic is which guy has the cooler mustache...
The data in the infographics is really comparing apples to oranges for the most part. Oracle, a company that sells servers, networking gear, storage of all varieties, hypervisors, operating systems, middleware, databases, development platforms, enterprise applications of all shapes and forms, systems management solutions, public and private cloud platforms (a stretch, but I gave them a little credit...) versus Salesforce.com, which offers a software-as-a-service platform for sales/customer management, a collaboration environment, and a platform-as-a-service development environment.
But, the infographic was obviously (hopefully) intended to present a lighter side to the ongoing tiff (it didn't start at Oracle World...) between these two Type-A personalities. With that said, it was rather enjoyable.
I am just not sure what to make of the paddleboard.
Are they competing? Ellison is describing cloud deployment/management within corporate walls. Benioff is describing the same, but in a hosted model. Applications and data governance will dictate whether it's run on-premise or off, or a hybrid between the two. There are far fewer service providers than there are commercial and enterprise customers to buy hardware and license software. That may be the rub. Conflict of business plans, not technology.
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