I agree 100%. Clean black and white would look way more professional. From there, add a color here and there but the theme used here is damn ugly from my point of view.
Do you aim to change the definition of "ugly"? The site is good-looking and totally professional with some good features. Read rest of the comments to know more :)
I can't tell if this is sarcasm. The site looks like it was designed by a versatile programmer who knows what attributes a good-looking site should have, but can't reproduce it himself.
JPEG artifacts on the logo, The arrow images left to "Cloud", "Open", "Social" and "Secure" are not antialiased. The arrow in the search box is below the center of the box, and lots of other minor issues that makes it look really awful.
Kudos for having an eye for detail, and I agree on the anti-aliasing part. Much appreciated. But aesthetic details are just a subset of professionalism, its not professionalism all by itself. The site has different section for intro, pricing, faq, blog and moreover they have a well done short video explaining what Database.com is about. These details are professional enough for a user to stick.
Are they? Like the OP of this thread, my immediate impression was that I was at the wrong site. It just feels like a domain squatting site, really (especially the "database.com" in the upper left. Here in the 20xxs it just isn't that impressive that you got a dictionary word domain, so stop being so impressed with it).
The flat grey at the top. The logo. The badly resized bullet points with jagged artefacts. No sign of the original salesforce logo. All the fonts are a little too big, but not in a pretty way. The pricing page.
I guess there's something to be said for simplicity, but this site looks like a Frontpage template.
They eye of the beholder...