Salesforce.com Eyes Siebel
Last Week I mentioned that “Siebel had purchased UpShot”:http://www.johnsjottings.com/archives/2003/10/16/jabberings_7.html#crm and that I thought this was actually good news for Salesforce.com. No surprise here, but sf.com is featuring this news rather prominently on their “home page”:http://www.salesforce.com/us/index.jsp via a flash ad titled “Discontinued Siebel UpShot.”
They are offering free migrations for existing UpShot customers, or rather “discontinued Siebel UpShot” users, via their “SureShot”:http://www.salesforce.com/us/newsevents/press-release.jsp?year=2003&month=October&id=031020 program. “Discontinued Siebel UpShot” appears no less than sevn times in their press release. I think we get the point!
Don’t know why but I find this rather funny.
Back at You - Siebel High-Low
Never say die. Finally in an interesting response to Salesforce.com attacks, Siebel is going for a High-Low Play. Attacking at the high end with its enterprise offering and at the low end with its acquisition of Upshot, another hosted CRM…