The Salesforce.com chief continued his spat with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday morning - and you might not see Marc Benioff at an Oracle conference again.

Having gone through a rash of CEOs in the past 10 to 15 years, Hewlett-Packard may soon find itself looking for yet another new chief, despite just tapping Meg Whitman for that job this week.

Salesforce.com has come a long way from its beginnings as an on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) vendor.

I’ve been in this industry long enough that I wasn’t exactly surprised to hear that we now apparently have a Cloud 2. Salesforce.com boss, Marc Benioff, apparently decided a few weeks ago that the first Cloud was not enough, and it was time to turn the technology into a franchise.

Salesforce.com is deepening the integration between its CRM (customer relationship management) and customer service software with the explosively popular social-networking site Facebook, Salesforce.com will announce on Thursday at an event in New York.

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on Thursday attempted to cement an image of the vendor as a full-blown application development platform provider, not merely a purveyor of SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications.