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DECEMBER 19, 2011

As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. We ran software on the PCs called “terminal emulation” that allowed us to act like a dumb terminal to interact with mainframes and to act like a PC (with word processing, spreadsheets, etc.

Web 355

Web AJAX Distribution HTML 355

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard. People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. That died with waterfall software development. Ditto for enterprise software companies. Usually in a tech / software startup 70-80% of your costs will be people. Do so at your peril.

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Business Plan AJAX Venture Capital Technical Review 334

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

lean startups or even the advent of AJAX. My philosophy emanated from my days of programming and later designing corporate software in the early 1990′s. We were smart kids straight out of college and were designing the systems that we’d want to use.

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Design AJAX Green Web Development 325

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

He has been able to take complicated topics like cloud computing and boil them down into pithy messages like “the end of software&# as depicted in the simple logo to the right. It emphasizes both cloud computing and salesforce.com’s differentiation – they’re not “software.&#. Software, software, software.

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Merger Differentiation AJAX Cloud 320

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

They pronounced “The End of Software.&# It was typical Marc Benioff marketing hyperbole but it was very effective. We had all worked in the software industry for a decade and saw the problems of on-premise software. We evangelized to customer about the problems of on premise software. - You have a data problem.

Flash 326

Flash Mobile Application Development Cloud 326

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999. Our view then (kind of obvious now) was that software would be consumed the way that consumer Internet sites were back then. Over time, with the growth of the popularity of AJAX we had a richer experience as users and as developers.

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