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Move past the enterprise software sham, says Benioff

Posted by admin in Applications on Mon, 01/03/2010 - 15:12
  • The traditional enterprise software model is exposed as a sham, reckons Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff, but even Cloud purists need to be ready to move with the times.
“We have a UK customer which has two data centres. For 500 call centre agents, they had 500 servers in two data centres backed up doing disaster recovery,  running technology that they bought in 1995! You look at that and you go, this is just an opportunity for a great efficiency, great enhancement.” 
 
It's scenarios like that which, according to Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, means that end users are waking up to “what a scam traditional enterprise software and hardware is” in an energy-constrained world.
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