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Getting sassy over SaaS. Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com CEO and Dave Girrouard, Google's Enterprise unit president chide Oracle, SAP and Microsoft for coming late to the Web-hosted software party Salesforce.com and Google executives had fighting words for rivals Oracle, SAP and Microsoft, saying those vendors are late to the Web-hosted software party and will pay the price for it. Speaking on the panel "Cloud: The Apps" on Thursday at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Salesforce.com's CEO Marc Benioff and Google's Enterprise unit president Dave Girouard displayed a "bring it on" attitude towards their larger rivals' aspirations in the market for SaaS ((software as a service). Asked by moderator Tim O'Reilly, CEO of O'Reilly Media, for his opinion about dismissive comments Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made recently about SaaS as little more than an empty buzzword, Benioff quoted ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War.
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