In the hot hosted-applications, on-demand, ASP, software-as-a-service CRM area, Siebel Systems has been a laggard. On multiple occasions, the prince of on demand CRM, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, has called his competitor Tom Siebel’s company "dead" and stated his goal as "putting Siebel out of business."
Bruce Cleveland, who worked with Benioff and many other [...]