Mark Benioff did not give birth to SaaS though but it was a very strong advocate.<p>"While Benioff is not credited with creating software as a service, he is considered one of its earliest adopters and biggest proponents. In a New York Times article from 2004, author Gary Rivlin stated, “Mr. Benioff did not invent this notion of software as a service. It dates back to mainframe computers in the 1960s."<p><a href="https://partnertap.com/blog/marc-benioffs-vision-cloud-based-service" rel="nofollow">https://partnertap.com/blog/marc-benioffs-vision-cloud-based...</a>