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Last week in front of 15,000 customers and prospects at his Dreamforce event, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff reignited his war of words with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison by lampooning Oracle’s Exadata system as “the false cloud” that defies the needs and desires of enterprise customers today.
Theatrics aside—and Benioff provides great theater, no question about it—his positioning of Oracle and Exadata as “the false cloud” drives a sharp wedge into the....