Oracle and Salesforce.com two CEOs compete in the cloud

For Oracle's CEO Larry http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/16528.html ">ellison, there is always a chord in the verbal debate." After a year of controversy over cloud computing and Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, Oracle's public cloud service really came!

At the Oracle OpenWorld Conference in San Francisco in early October, Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison personally released the Oracle Public Cloud (Oracle publicly Cloud). As an integrated service suite, Oracle Public cloud allows users to subscribe to self-service Oracle Fusion applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle databases. And these software products are all provided by Oracle Management, hosting and support services.

Like the Oracle OpenWorld conference in 2010, Ellison unveiled the Oracle public cloud without disguising its scathing attack on rival Salesforce.com. Ellison described Salesforce.com's force.com platform as a "roach motel" for cloud Services (Roach Motel), saying the Force.com platform uses a client programming language like Apex, which is "locked by the final vendor." By contrast, the Oracle public cloud uses Java, SQL, XML, and other standards.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff

The "feud" is already buried.

The introduction of Oracle Public cloud Services announces Oracle's formal involvement in the enterprise-class cloud services and SaaS delivery market that Salesforce.com is focused on and adept at. Today, the two-company confrontation is not a night of formation, a year ago, the two companies CEO of the High-profile War of words has been for this cloud war sounded the horn.

At the Oracle OpenWorld Conference in 2010, Ellison said: "Salesforce.com's CRM software is just an automated program based on cloud computing, some call it a cloud product, but it's actually a SaaS product." There is a big difference between the two. "Before that, Benioff had a fierce attack on Oracle's Oracle Middleware Cloud Server (Oracle Exalogic elastic Cloud), which was just launched."

Benioff said: "The cloud is a lot of things, but it is not a machine, there is no cloud in the machine ... Oracle lets users buy a pricey Oracle Middleware cloud server to create a cloud environment and then claim to be a cloud product manufacturer, which is simply ' fake cloud computing '! In this respect, Ellison: "Cloud is not running in the machine?" If Salesforce.com does not run on the machine, what do you think it is running on? ”

At the Oracle OpenWorld Conference in 2011, the fighting atmosphere intensified in two companies. Benioff's speech at the conference was temporarily canceled by Oracle and only arranged for Salesforce.com to be displayed in the second day of the show. Benioff said on Twitter that Ellison "canceled" his speech at the last minute. Oracle said that they did not cancel the speech of Benioff, just because of the participants too much and the exhibition space and other issues, had to adjust.

Later, Benioff a speech at a hotel near the show, and he made a sarcastic remark: "Oracle also provides us with an opportunity to display the Sunday-8 o'clock Gap on Alcatraz Island." In this respect, I would like to thank Oracle. "After the Gofer, Benioff Oracle's software and hardware integration system, such as Oracle Database Machine (Oracle DB Appliance), was launched at this conference.

Benioff said: "Personally believe that the hardware and software integration machine is not the next major influence in the industry." "Of course, he thinks the next big influence is running the business on the cloud, not the hardware." This may also be an important reason for the cancellation of his speech. Ellison and Benioff in recent years. In fact, Ellison was an early investor in Salesforce.com, but Benioff criticized Ellison on many occasions, including a speech a few months ago in Boston. "Imitation is the sincerest flattery," Benioff said recently in his Twitter.

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