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Benioff removed as speaker at OpenWorld
Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce.com and onetime close friend of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, said he has been removed as a speaker from Oracle's OpenWorld conference going on this week in San Francisco, and he blames Ellison for the move.

"Larry just cancelled my keynote tomorrow! Beware of the false cloud," Benioff said in a Twitter post this evening. Despite the cancellation, Benioff ralph lauren outlet seemed undeterred, announcing that he had moved his appearance to the St. Regis. "The show must go on! Sorry Larry!"

In a statement on the matter, Oracle characterized the move as a scheduling change that was due to heavy attendance at the conference.

"Due to the overwhelming attendance at Oracle OpenWorld we had to make several session changes," a company representative said in a statement. "The Salesforce.com Executive Solution Session was moved to Thursday at 8:00am in the Novellus Theatre."

Benioff said Oracle's tory burch outlet revised schedule conflicted with planned travel and he would be unable to attend.

The row is the latest flare-up in a long-simmering feud between Benioff, who spent years learning the ropes at Oracle under Ellison, and the Oracle CEO, who was an early investor in Salesforce.com.

It would appear there is still bad blood between the Ellison and Benioff, who told CNET in 2004 that "we made Larry Ellison a lot of money on north face uk the IPO, but I haven't really got my thank-you call yet from him."

Hewlett-Packard said today it has gained control of Autonomy via a cash tender offer.

The company said that it has acquired more than 87 percent of Autonomy for ?25.50 ($39.72) per share in cash.

With the deal, which has been derided for being too expensive by analysts, HP gains 25,000 customer accounts and can pursue its plan to beef up its software unit.

Autonomy is seen as a specialist in managing unstructured data. HP CEO Meg Whitman said Autonomy allows the company "to manage and extract meaning from that data to drive insight, foresight and better decision making."

Mike Lynch, current canada goose CEO of Autonomy, will continue to run the business and report to Whitman. Lynch has been on the receiving end of barbs from Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Ellison said that Autonomy was shopped to Oracle. Lynch disagreed.