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How Roambi Is Making Mobile Work For The Enterprise, with Quinton Alsbury

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So, we set out to do that, and after a year and a half developed the first version of our product. Quinton Alsbury: The way the application is designed is fairly agnostic to any particular vertical or operation inside a company. That data can come from an existing business intelligence system, like SAP, Oracle, IBM, or Salesforce.com.

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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. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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Interview with John Hanna, FunnelSource

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One of the local firms attacking that market is Los Angeles-based FunnelSource (www.funnelsource.com), a developer of software-as-a-service tools that provide analytics to sales teams. I'd used every CRM tool out there--Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft--you name it, I've used it. They had to pull the plug.

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Quick Pitch Friday: Taher Scherzay, Thaeres

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For our pitch today, we have an interview with Taher Scherzay , founder of Thaeres (www.thaeres.com), a Los Angeles area startup developing subscription and recurring payment processing services. Taher Scherzay: We''ve bootstrapped this from the get go, which is from design. What is Thaeres about? They''re left in the middle ground.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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Product Development: philosophie. Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done. Mark Douglas, Steelhouse President and CEO, is formerly from Oracle and was the VP of Technology at eHarmony.

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How Event Farm Is Making Events A Part Of Your Sales Funnel

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We also wanted access to development resources, and we have our product team here, the engineers and designers, all based in Santa Monica. If you look at the marketing cloud, at companies like Salesforce, Oracle, and Adobe, they are providing the consumer marketing cloud. It's stupid to say you don't have competitors.

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Everything about Java 8

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The following post is a comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8. At the time of this writing, Java 8 development is still very much in progress. The Java 8 javadocs are hosted locally for the time being because I don't know of an official, Oracle-hosted location for them. Interface improvements.

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