Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff?s long-running public feud appears to be over, with the CEOs of Oracle and Salesforce.com making a joint appearance Thursday to extol the virtues of a new partnership they describe as financially sensible and strategically pragmatic.
?The best decision we ever made is to go with Oracle? for Salesforce.com?s infrastructure, Benioff said of a company he once accused of selling a ?false cloud.? Improvements for cloud computing in Oracle?s new 12c database ?are extremely important? to Salesforce.com and the vendor expects to cut its database server costs ?in half,? he said. ?I couldn?t be more thrilled to make this announcement with you today, Larry.?
Ellison, who once called Salesforce.com?s platform a ?roach motel? that is difficult for customers to migrate away from, had no such jibes on Thursday.
?Salesforce.com and Oracle have some overlapping products, but there are far more opportunities to work together than to compete,? he said.
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