Marc Benioff all but educated the market on the benefits of software-as-a-service, the advantages of using a lightweight, easily configurable hosted sales forceapplication compared to the generally accepted status quo of the time: complex enterprise software typified by Siebel, now an Oracle acquisition.
Even if such paranoia were justified, slimming down this market via a transaction levy would be an applicationof brute force when bank funding is already fragile.
The Task Force suggested the applicationof sanctions in two stages, with the threat of"a warning, a fine or the playing ofa match behind closed doors" for "a first or minor offence".