Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, finally got a little revenge.

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Benioff Offers Cloud Riposte: It’s Not Just Fashion

If you have commercial intent and your looking to build the next killer app on Force.com, then you’re going to want to attend our next Tech Talk . Come join Andrew Smith, our Application Distribution PM discuss what’s new with packaging.

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Becoming the next salesforce.com

Chris Shipley and I arrived in Boston today, the latest step in our campaign to find the best companies to launch at the DEMOfall conference in September. We’re meeting at Vox, at 6pm.

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Let’s close out Boston “Innovation month” with a bang!

During the global economic downturn, an IT industry that delivers too much complexity and not enough flexibility has lost a lot of credibility, says Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, and a major repercussion has been the rise of the reference-account CIO as sales driver. Is your commission plan all set up?

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CIOs Don’t Listen To Vendors Anymore, Says Salesforce CEO

AdmitOne has built a security business with a technology, called keystroke dynamics, that can recognize who’s logging into an account by the pattern of the person’s typing.

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AdmitOne’s new tool to make subscription-based sites more profitable

Join the webinar ” Tech Talk Series: Email Services on Force.com ” on Wednesday July 1st. Will give you a great introduction into how you can leverage Email Services and start building email integration into Salesforce. You will learn and see examples of how to build your own services.

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Tech Talk: Want to Learn About Building Email Services?

At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I asked all of the vendors, “SaaS or on-premise?” The assumption, because this conference was all about modern 2.0 stuff, was that everyone would say, “SaaS, of course.” Wrong. At least 50% of the vendors were deploying primarily on premise. Even some of the pure SaaS crowd would admit to an occasional on-premise deployment

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Why Enterprises Don’t Like SaaS

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Sun Microsystems CTO Greg Papadopolous, and Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com speculate on cloud computing’s future.

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Cloud Computing Advocates Detail Its Future

Chris Shipley and I are coming to Boston — the next step in our extended road trip to scout out the best companies and products to launch at the DEMOfall conference in September. We’re headed there after having a great time in LA, with the highlight last night at the Parlor in Santa Monica, where more than 50 entrepreneurs showed up during the evening (a few photos below). We’re hearing some great pitches on the road, from a guy who wants to turn the insurance industry upside down (and he may do it), to another guy with a novel way to splice music on a mobile phone

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DEMO-VentureBeat heads to Boston — goodbye Santa Monica!

Marc Benioff, co-founder and chief executive of Salesforce.com , told attendees at today’s Structure 09 conference in San Francisco that the world of business software and infrastructure is starting to see the same craze for real-time results that’s taking over web search . And he extolled the virtues of the pioneer of the real-time web — microblogging service Twitter .

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Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff: The future of computing looks like Twitter