The father of cloud computing: We were born in cloud computing and now reborn as a social

Guide: After Jobs resigned, there was a surge of discussion about who would be the next Steve Jobs. The San Jose Messenger, the biggest Silicon Valley newspaper, ranked 5 Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are expected to be the next Steve Jobs. In addition to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page, it also includes the visionary, adventurous "cloud computing" father Benioff.

Benioff (Marc Benioff) idioms are amazing.

In an interview with Bloomberg News at the end of August, he compared the Arab Spring with the changes that are taking place in the software industry. "The protesters who use Facebook and Twitter have overthrown many dictators, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi," he said. He said: "The software industry is also in the revolution, companies are falling down, if they can become more social, perhaps there is a chance to survive." ”

This is not the first time he has predicted the demise of the software industry. As early as 1998 when he was still an executive at Oracle, he had the idea of subverting the traditional software industry. At that time, he assumed that if the software was in the cloud and did not need to be installed, maintained and upgraded locally, people around the world could use any device to log on to the Web site using software, like using water and electricity, to pay regularly.

Benioff with this idea to create a salesforce.com, a respected "software as a service" cloud services company, mainly for enterprise customers. In July 1999, 6 months after Mark started the site, the Wall Street Journal reported on its front-page headline-"Software will become an online service, or a change in the industry", a special reference to Salesforce.

Now, more than 10 years in the past, Salesforce has developed into an industry leader, a small idea that made the current market value of about 16 billion dollars in the kingdom, multiples of 600 times times. Countless SMEs use their software services on the web, eliminating the hassle of buying hardware, machines and maintenance.

August 31, Salesforce held a Dreamforce developer conference, the company's founder, the current CEO Benioff keynote speech. At the beginning of his speech, he told 40,000 participants: "We are born in cloud computing and are now reborn as social." "He praised Apple's former CEO Steve Jobs, saying he led the change in the mobile age.

Benioff and Jobs had a history of being an intern at Apple when he was young. In the 2003, some confused Benioff led team members to visit jobs. At the time, jobs encouraged him to focus on achieving his ideas and suggested that he should consider building a larger "development environment". Later, Salesforce launched a service similar to an online software store and registered the "APP store" domain name and trademark. 5 years later, to thank Mr. Jobs for his help, Benioff the "app Store" domain name and trademark to Apple at the time Apple launched its online software store.

After Mr. Jobs resigned, discussions were rife over who would be the next Steve Jobs. The San Jose Messenger, the biggest Silicon Valley newspaper, ranked 5 Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are expected to be the next Steve Jobs. In addition to the well-known Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page, the visionary, adventurous "cloud computing" father Benioff also became one-fifth.

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