socalTECH
MARCH 23, 2009
Irvine-based Relsys International , a developer of drug safety and risk management software for the health care industry, has been acquired by software giant Oracle. Oracle said this morning that it has agreed to acquire Relsys, which will become part of its Health Sciences Global Business Unit. Relsys was founded in 1987.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 19, 2013
And of course the most successful technology companies: Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com [duh], Oracle, Microsoft all have loads of sales people. Why would you have your most important success factor (successful implementations) outsourced to a third-party where you don’t control quality and who is strictly mercenary (i.e.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 3, 2014
We have 12 developers and they have 3. Sales people will often sell future development work. If your sales teams think that they can throw in some extra features that you’ll build to win the big contract they will. That stuff is for Oracle or IBM. “Sure, they can sell at 50% of our price.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 3, 2012
Companies here are really held accountable to what is in the contract, and how their products are implemented. As you know, SuccessFactors was bought by SAP, Taleo was bought by Oracle, and the only independent companies left are Cornerstone OnDemand and Workday. It's also taught us a lot of discipline by being in the public sector.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 5, 2011
We have 12 developers and they have 3. Sales people will often sell future development work. If your sales teams think that they can throw in some extra features that you’ll build to win the big contract they will. That stuff is for Oracle or IBM. “Sure, they can sell at 50% of our price.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 16, 2020
Many pundits will point to great entrepreneurs, including Steve Jobs at Apple, and Larry Ellison at Oracle, as examples of opinionated and egotistical leaders who succeeded without consideration for relationships. Don’t wait for the right people in business to find you – developers, investors, partners, or key customers.
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