Benioff is a good guy. He is the pioneer of the 1/1/1 philanthropy model and has convinced a bunch of other companies to follow suit with that model (i.e. Google et all) and helped out a lot of people.

Also, to be fair he was one of the first people to come up with the idea of the Cloud for the enterprise, and actually deliver a scalable, reliable system which could replace on-premise software.

Oracle is just playing school yard politics; Larry and Marc are friends and Larry was one of the first investors in Salesforce.