Oliver said this meant that enterprise contracts could reduce award conditions and would "further diminish the bargaining capacity of workers".
But Mr. Ballmer, in an interview, said this so-called enterprise portion of Microsoft's business already represented about $4 billion of its $23 billion in annual revenue.
Sonny Vaccaro, the retired sneaker company executive who spent much of his career dealing with summer league coaches, runners and middle men, said: "This is free enterprise, that's what they're saying, if someone comes up with a buyer.
"How do you market, service and sell to customers?" Within Salesforce itself, he said, this means building enterprise software for mobile products, being capable of understanding in real time what customers are doing with the products they have purchased, and staying in constant, and appropriate, contact with customers.
Of the toy business, he says, "This lunatic enterprise of yours is a failure".
David Rennie, director of CCS at Scottish Enterprise, said: "This report provides strong evidence of the significant economic potential in developing carbon capture and storage on the UK Continental Shelf, particularly when combined with enhanced oil recovery techniques".
The minister for skills and enterprise, Matthew Hancock, said: "This shocking report shows England has some of the least literate and numerate young adults in the developed world.
The President says that this "enterprise value tax", as he calls it, is needed as a complement to changing the tax rate on carried interest in order to prevent fund managers from circumventing the new rule by selling their businesses to avoid paying higher tax rates on future carried interest income.
Enterprise Minister Fergus Ewing said: "This increase in the number of businesses is encouraging, especially in the current economic climate".
Mr. Neaman, the business partner, said the enterprise is not about profit.
