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Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, talks about how Salesforce is all for sweetness and love and openness and all the good things. As VentureBeat reports: Comparing Microsoft and Salesforce, Benioff said: “They hate everybody and we love everybody, and that’s pretty much the difference. We ...
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Zoho Redefines Transparency With Zoho Status
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Zoho CEO Blog Levies Sharp Accusations Against Salesforce.com's Benioff
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... Here's something you don't see too often: The CEO of one company going public about the sort of sensitive conversations with the CEO of another company -- the sort of conversations that normally start behind closed doors and stay behind close doors. In this case, it's Zoho's Sridhar Vembu taking Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff to task for trying to force Zoho to shut its CRM offering down before Zoho would be allowed to join Salesforce.com's AppExchange program. In his blog, Vembu writes : That’s when I got the full measure of the man: Benioff told me he could not permit us to ...

Zoho to Salesforce: Let us onto Force.com
Webware.com — ... Sridhar Vembu, CEO of AdventNet, the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications, has again called out Marc Benioff in a public post accusing Salesforce of attempting to "block customers from migrating to Zoho CRM." ...

Zoho to Salesforce: Let us onto Force.com
Coop's Corner — After today, Barack Obama and John McCain will (presumably) bury the hatchet and move on with their lives. I'm not quite sure I can say the same thing about the respective heads of Zoho and Salesforce.com. Sridhar Vembu, CEO of AdventNet, the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications, has again called out Marc Benioff in a public post accusing Salesforce of attempting to "block customers from migrating to Zoho CRM." Earlier this year, Vembu publicized details of negotiations he had with Salesforce in a bid to make Zoho work with ...

Zoho Rejected From Salesforce.com AppExchange After Acquisition Refusal
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — ... “I was furious because both Benioff and his team clearly knew we had a CRM offering going into this engagement, and if they had set this as a pre-condition for us to integrate into AppExchange, we would never have put in the resources we did,” stated Vembu. ...

Roundup: FCC opens airwaves, Google slows hiring and more
VentureBeat — ... , but Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu disagrees, using Zoho’s attempt to get onto the Salesforce AppExchange as an example. ...

Don't Announce You're Open When You Just Blocked Someone Out
Techdirt — ... , that doesn't mean that Salesforce's strategy is really all that much better. In response to Benioff's claims that they "love everyone," the CEO of Zoho suggests a less lovey-dovey version of Salesforce.com, noting that Zoho was all set to launch products on Salesforce's own cloud computing platform, Force (formerly AppExchange), when suddenly Salesforce.com blocked Zoho -- mainly because Zoho offers a competing CRM system. ...

Best LittleCo of 2008 & Most Promising for 2009
ReadWriteWeb — ... and scrappy about it. And in a year that will be remembered for the economic downturn, Zoho is a reminder to us all that we can work ourselves out of a down economy. ...

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