On October 5, 2009
Benioff To Ballmer: ‘Now That’s Efficient!’
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer didn’t make a lot of friends last week when he wrote that, with corporate budgets shrinking, customers will turn to Microsoft to get more technology bang for their beleaguered bucks. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is the most recent to express his displeasure while describing his cloud-based company’s growth and introducing new features to the company’s call center technology during a conference I attended at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in New York City. Benioff boasted that his company runs applications for its 63,000 customers on only 1,500 PC servers — 500 on the West Coast, 500 on the East Coast, and 500 in Singapore. “Now that’s efficient,” he gloated. It’s hard to imagine Microsoft using less than…
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