Will Salesforce.com's vision outlast Siebel's? | InfoWorld

"When people talk about Silicon Valley's new crop of software executives cut from the mold of Oracle (Profile, Products, Articles) leader Larry Ellison, Salesforce.com founder and Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff is always at the top of the list. Like Ellison, his one-time boss and current rival, Benioff is brash, aggressively competitive, and always ready with an inflammatory quote. Also like Ellison, he likes to make grandiose projections about how his company will reshape and dominate its industry. He's taken seriously because many of those projections have come true. "