Following the proposed acquisition of Siebel by Oracle many existing Siebel employees may be concerned about their career prospects, ... We want to offer them an alternative to an environment of declining commissions, confused customers and uncertainty around career viability. |
I never thought that's what Oracle would be doing today. |
I went to the Big Island of Hawaii and sat in a house on a point by the ocean. I thought about some of the amazing things I had seen recently in the industry. Two of the most spectacular were the emergence of the browser 18 months before, and Amazon.com. |
It's a big leap for us. We think it will show the world the next step for on-demand computing, just as we showed the world the first step. |
January was not our best month ever, far from it, and that was disappointing. |
Like some of our best ideas, trust.salesforce.com was inspired by our conversations with customers. We have a tradition of leading the on-demand revolution with breakthrough innovations, and we hope that trust.salesforce.com will take its place among some of our best new products. |
Microsoft is a vestige of the past, |
Microsoft's whole strategy, |
Our customers are not just customizing fields and tabs--they are building their own applications across a wide range of functional areas. |
Please note that most - but not all - Siebel employees are currently eligible for hire at salesforce.com today and that the recruiting department will screen for eligibility, |
The current business model is broken. We need to break through [to reach] ease of use. |
The era of the traditional software 'load, update and upgrade' business and technology model is over, ... It is time for 'The Business Web.' ... Just as mainframe companies struggled for relevance in the client-server era, Microsoft finds itself in a worse position today, facing not just the obsolescence of a technology model, but a business model as well. |
There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease. Our community of success demands the most reliable service that we can deliver, and our outstanding performance in March is evidence of our dedication to scaling ahead of their needs. |
They have created a culture of acquisition instead of innovation. It's a lot easier just to write big checks than it is to innovate. |
This is a fulfillment of our vision of 'The Business Web,' enabling companies of any size to manage, organize and share all of their business information on demand. |