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Quest Software Loses CEO

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Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software said Tuesday afternoon that CEO and President Doug Garn has stepped down. Quest said that Garn is stepping down due to "pressing health issues." Smith had served as CEO of Quest from 1997 to 2008. Smith had served as CEO of Quest from 1997 to 2008. Garn had been CEO for three years.

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Hacking Prevention— IPv6 and Secure Coding Practices

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 -- CommNexus presents Hacking Prevention— IPv6 and Secure Coding Practices. Mr. Jay McGuerty with SAIC will demonstrate some of the vulnerabilities inherent in the current RFCs for IPv6, and Javier Godinez will review the most common coding errors seen at SAIC. See [link] (more).

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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ServiceNow Tops Job Creation List

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San Diego-based enterprise software developer ServiceNow has been ranked the top job creator in a listing from Inc. Magazine, the company reported today. The company added 792 jobs during the three period. The company said it was number six among all companies in California, and number 14 in the overall top 100.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 Tech Diligence - Consider The Source.

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Ixia Reports Record Revenues, But Sees Loss

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Calabasas-based Ixia , a developer of network testing tools, reported its fourth quarter and 2009 year end results Thursday, saying that it lost $31.3M The loss came due to a $27.6M The firm said the revenues were an increase of 37% over 2008's Q4, and were up 21% over the $46.4M in Q4 of 2009, on record revenues of $56.1M

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

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Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. You mentioned you were just three people, how did you develop what you did with just three people at the time?