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Day 2 of the event featured talks from Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, AT&T's Ralph de la Vega, Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff, and others.

At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, announced the company’s latest venture.

With Force.com Sites, customers can build, host, and allow individual users to customize a public Web page using Force.com technologies.

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff doesn’t think companies should be worrying about things like servers and security, software updates and web hosting.

In a keynote speech at the company’s Dreamforce conference today, he explained that those sort of things are what he and his company should be worrying about.

Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called “spectacular,” but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon.

While Marc Benioff may rail against the status quo in the enterprise software business, not all software buyers will join in the chorus, says one of Benioff's chief competitors.

Web-based business software sold by companies like Benioff's Salesforce.com will likely augment, not replace, large, complex enterprise systems, ...

Salesforce.com is furthering its alliance with Google through a new toolkit that lets developers tap into Google's services.

The two companies inked an initial deal in April to link Salesforce's CRM (customer relationship management) applications with integrated Google Apps.

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner dueled at the Churchill Club in a debate about the future of software and the generation gap couldn’t be larger.

Benioff brought the bluster, portrayed SAP as a dinosaur and prodded his much larger rival to develop in his platform.

Plattner didn’t take the bait.

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff reckons that its platform as a service initiatives will take about a decade to truly bake.

Benioff made those comments in an interview with News.com’s Dan Farber and Charles Cooper. The interview is worth a read given that Benioff and Dan usually have a few interesting riffs.

Benchmark Capital has invested $6.5 million in online subscription software company Zuora, which launched Thursday, according to the company.

The series A round of funding also included investors Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff and early executives from Web conferencing company WebEx.

Redwood City, Calif.-based Zuora has built a ...