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“This is what our customers are asking for to take them to the next level and free them from the bondage of mainframe and client-server software.”

Quote by Marc Benioff

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Marc Benioff is an American entrepreneur and author, renowned for his innovations in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry. Born on September 25, 1964, he is the co-founder and CEO of Salesforce.com. Benioff is respected for his promotion of cloud computing and transformative impact on the enterprise software industry. more

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