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HP-Oracle war: HP ditches Oracle CRM for Salesforce

• pilif 16y ago
  Even with all the bad blood - migrating 40'000 users from one piece of software to another, while keeping all accumulated data intact is a huge and costly undertaking. And while I'm sure that there is some recurring support cost for the currently deployed software, salesforce, while maybe cheaper in support, probably also comes with a huge initial license fee. Is this fight over that one guy (albeit the CEO) really worth an investment of this size?
  • epo 16y ago
    I'll bet Salesforce would have given them all sorts of freebies and concessions just for this publicity.
    • dctoedt 16y ago
      > freebies and concessions just for this publicity And it's not just the publicity -- it's Salesforce.com's sales reps being able to say to Oracle's other customers, one on one, that they should "be smart, do what HP did, rip out Oracle and go with us." That's not at all uncommon, from what my sales colleagues used to tell me.
• famsam 16y ago
  I thought Ellison was a big investor in Salesforce.com.
• famsam 16y ago
  I thought Ellison was a big investor in Salesforce.com.
• thedealmaker 16y ago
  HP still uses oracle financial internally. Let's see them ditch that...