44 Quotes by Shai Agassi

Sometimes it was great for the customers, sometimes it wasn't great for the customers.

After the Enterprise Services Architecture, your applications world will be made from apps by us based on these services, apps from ISVs...and apps you build yourself.

You need to begin by analyzing your business first. You have to assume you're on a treadmill and you have to integrate whatever comes your way.

This isn't about assembling Lego blocks but rather about building a backbone that can scale and that can allow others to build on top of it.

They needed continuous deployment options and a more strategic CRM.... They wanted more than just a sliver of customer information. They wanted a full picture of the customer.

They didn't want to say up front, 'You're going to have to migrate from your software,' because those words would have created a tremor. Now it's been a year, and what they're saying is, We're not going to take that code, we're just going to take some of the ideas. You can't do automatic migrations because it's rewritten. If I'm looking at a whole new implementation, why is it going to Oracle?

It looks great on PowerPoint, but on planet Earth, it won't fly. Salesforce.com is a CRM company. Marc is trying to make noise and buzz about something bigger, but that's all it is.

It will be a systematic process. The (community partners) have to be successful for this whole model to work. If you don't make money in this process, we're not successful. We know that and we understand that.

It's not about who is buying whom in the industry, it's about process innovation.