HP-Oracle war: HP ditches Oracle CRM for Salesforce

theregister.co.uk

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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?

I'll bet Salesforce would have given them all sorts of freebies and concessions just for this publicity.

> 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.

HP still uses oracle financial internally. Let's see them ditch that...

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