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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

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The answer was yes, and we also saw that we could begin to play at web scale, be hosted in the cloud, be scalable in an extensive way. We then actually went to the leader, Amazon, and we're in the web services group. We were even funded back in 2006 by Adobe, to move over to Flex. But, they were an HTML app on a LAMP stack.