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“Customers get vested in certain paradigms of computing, and those large vendors will try to keep those customers in those paradigms of computing for as long as possible. That's where you basically get the term cash cow.”

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Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff

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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