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Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff (Image by Getty Images via @daylife) A year ago at Oracle’s big OpenWorld event, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff lampooned Oracle’s overall strategy and in particular its approach to cloud computing, ridiculing Oracle’s Exadata and Exalogic as giant infrastructure boxes running totally counter to the wants and needs of modern businesses. After such behavior, will Benioff be invited back to this year’s OpenWorld? Most of us would say there’s no chance—but....