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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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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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I came up with my business name, Kate’s Theatrics at about 9pm April 14, 2001. Instead of rushing through and naming my business Cory’s Web Design, I figured I should attempt to use some creativity to select a name. Thanks to Cory Vyse, Selaris Web Media Inc. ! #21- The name and domain were born then.

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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. In addition to the unprecedented number of people now reachable via the Internet, we are at the very beginning a gargantuan new technology cycle: the move from Web/PC computing to cloud and mobile.

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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 -. Web Designer (Req. APG - Associate - Application Developer (NON ALADDIN) -. WSJ Web Slice. CyberCoders.

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

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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. So clueless.

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