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Oracle Sets Its Sights on salesforce.com

By Eric Bleeker and Jeremy Phillips | More Articles
October 14, 2011 | Comments (0)

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In today's edition, Eric and Jeremy discuss recent verbal dust-ups between Oracle and salesforce.com. The two regularly spar with one another -- and Microsoft -- but the rhetoric has ratcheted up in the wake of Oracle announcing its own public cloud service.

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