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A Churchill Club Great Debate: The Future of Enterprise Software
3 April 2008
 
Marc Benioff and Hasso Plattner

Arma Partners and the Churchill Club co-hosted a debate on April 3rd 2008 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA

Speakers:
Marc Benioff
Founder, Chairman, & CEO, salesforce.com

Hasso Plattner
Co-Founder, ex-CEO, & Chairman, SAP AG

Moderator:
Quentin Hardy
Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, Forbes Magazine

 
The Great Debate: Arma Partners event report with full transcript
Arma Partners Whitepaper: Software as a Service: Ride it while it’s hot! (Nov 2007)
Arma Partners Whitepaper: SaaS Addendum (Apr 2008)
 
The software industry seems to be confronting large-scale challenges as new models, including on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS), are having an increasingly disruptive impact on the traditional, licensed software models.

The debate focused on the future of the Enterprise Software industry and the disruption created by the SaaS model. Marc and Hasso discussed the excitement, hype and reality surrounding the SaaS market today and explored the cultural, structural, technological and economic issues of around the model against the background of ongoing consolidation in the Enterprise Software market.

Below are links to news providers and prominent blogs relevant to the Enterprise Software space expressing their views on the event.
 
Plattner vs. Benioff Smackdown Cagefight
Dave Kellogg, CEO of Mark Logic
 
SAP vs. Salesforce: Is Benioff overestimating his platform?
Larry Dignan, Editor in Chief of ZDNet
 
Salesforce.com's Benioff bests SAP's Plattner in debate
Dan Farber, VP of editorial at CNET and editor in chief of ZDNet
 
Benioff v. Plattner: Let history decide
Demir Barlas, SearchSAP.com Editorial team
 
Plattner vs. Benioff: Who Is Looking to Buy Salesforce?
Renee Boucher Ferguson, Enterprise Apps
 
Is SaaS a Savior or 'Scary' For The Enterprise?
David Needle, Internetnews.com
 
SAP, Salesforce CEOs Spar
James Niccolai, IDG News Service
 
Benioff vs. Plattner and the future of enterprise software
Felix Serna, Sun blogs
 
 
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