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The CEO’s CEO

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In recognition of his phenomenal vision and execution, BEA named Alfred its new Chief Executive Officer in October 2001. By revolutionizing the enterprise computing market with the Application Server category, Alfred generated ferocious competition from industry behemoths: IBM, Oracle, Sun, HP, and the new, powerful open source movement.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! See my blog post, Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO. Why are consulting CTOs so scarce?

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

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Constrained by such an early and weak technology platform, companies built poor applications. And hence the great crash of 2000 and 2001. As a result, the expectations of what the Internet would be radically outstripped the reality of what it was. Since then and over the last 10 years, everything has gotten better. Much better.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Software Development Engineer, Senior-IEB-Commercial Services (795929) Job -. APG - Associate - Application Developer (NON ALADDIN) -. Personalize your own news page. Receive and manage newsletters.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Expensify Blog. But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet. Microsoft has always produced the best tools for building internal business applications, and.NET is their masterpiece.

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