Marc Benioff to tech industry: Work harder to transform faster

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff talks about the consumerization of the Internet at the Gartner ITxpo in Orlando. Benioff says the software industry needs to work harder and make transformations faster to keep pace with the changing needs of a younger generation entering the workforce.

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@virago81

No, what it means is:

"Once they get you hooked on the drug (AKA: stateless devices connected to the cloud), that's when Marc Benioff' and his company starts to fuck you in "service' fees".

Plain and simple: "We are going back to the IBM days - with dumb terminals (wired or wireless) connected to a mainframe. Except the mainframe is not in your facility and the "service" fees are going to cost as much as a mainframe after "Marc Benioff' is fucking done with you.

[opentable]

I couldn't have said it any better - right on!

[virago81]

Brilliant. It is amazing to see all of the companies whose profits are tied up with selling servers and on-premise software saying "Oh, we do cloud too!". They don't even get what 'Cloud' means.  If it isn't multi-tenant, if it doesn't benefit from economies of scale, it ain't Cloud. If you have to pay for upgrades, it ain't Cloud.

[segalnyc]

Great follow up to the thread started at Oracle Open World. What is the future of computing? "The future does not equal that past!" "You don't put a cloud in a box!" Yeah Marc