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Customers get vested in certain paradigms of computing, and those large vendors will try to keep those customers in those paradigms of computing for as long as possible. That's where you basically get the term cash cow.

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Marc Benioff
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Businessman
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Chief Executive Officer
San Francisco County
California
Marc Russell Benioff
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