Benioff removed as speaker at OpenWorld
Marc Benioff, the chief executive of S alesforce.com and onetime closefriend of Oracle&nb sp;CEO Larry Ellison, said he has been r emoved as aspeaker from Oracle's OpenWorld co nference going on this week in SanFrancisco,& nbsp;and he blames Ellison for the move. ;
"Larry just cancelled my keynote&nb sp;tomorrow! Beware of the false cloud,"Benioff&nb sp;said in a Twitter post this evening. Despite the cancellation,Benioff
ralph lauren outlet seemed undeterred, announcing that he had moved his appearance to the St. Regis. "The show must go on! Sorry Larry!"
In a statement on the matter, Oracle characterized the move as ascheduling change that was due to heavy attendance at the conference.
"Due to the overwhelming attendance at Oracle OpenWorld we had to makeseveral session changes," a company representative said in a statement."The Salesforce.com Executive Solution Session was moved to Thursday at8:00am in the Novellus Theatre."
Benioff said Oracle's
tory burch outlet revised schedule conflicted with planned travel and he would be unable to attend.
The row is the latest flare-up in a long-simmering feud between Benioff,who spent years learning the ropes at Oracle under Ellison, and theOracle CEO, who was an early investor in Salesforce.com.
It would appear there is still bad blood between the Ellison andBenioff, who told CNET in 2004 that "we made Larry Ellison a lot ofmoney on
north face uk the IPO, but I haven't really got my thank-you call yet from him."
Hewlett-Packard said today it has gained control of Autonomy via a cash tender offer.
The company said that it has acquired more than 87 percent of Autonomy for ?25.50 ($39.72)
per share in cash.
With the deal, which ha s been derided for being too expensive b yanalysts, HP gains 25,000 customer accounts and can pursue its plan tobeef up its&nb sp;software unit.
Autonomy i s seen as a specialist in managing unstr uctured data. HP CEOMeg Whitman said Autonomy allows the company "to manage and extra ctmeaning from that data to drive insight,&nb sp;foresight and better decisionmaking."
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Mike Lynch, current
canada gooseCEO of Autonomy, will continue to run the business and report toWhitman. Lynch has been on the receiving end of barbs from Oracle CEOLarry Ellison. Ellison said that Autonomy was shopped to Oracle. Lynchdisagreed.
