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I spent the morning at the salesforce.com event, but much of the discussion in the hallways was about the implications of Siebel getting acquired by Oracle.
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Salesforce.com's Benioff: It's the end of Siebel
After hearing that Oracle was acquiring Customer Relationship Management (CRM) titan Siebel Systems this morning, I shot off an email to Marc Benioff, CEO at CRM on-demand darling salesforce.com to see what he had to say.
Oracle buys Siebel: Ellison firmly in CRM catbird seat
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Sun's galactic server makeover
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