As Marc Benioff focuses on improving Salesforce's profits, he's leaning on Oracle's Larry Ellison and it's uprooting Salesforce's long-held culture.

With its new ApexConnect family of integration tools, Salesforce.com makes on-demand software a valid challenger to on-premises applications; meanwhile, Oracle remains a sleeping giant lying in wait.

Tech Services & Software Salesforce adds connector apps to Apex New features of programming language to give customers more connections with other vendors' applications.