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President Trump reportedly has approved the Oracle deal for TikTok’s US operations

TechCrunch LA

President Donald Trump said has has given his stamp of approval “in concept” on the Oracle bid for the U.S. operations of the messaging service WeChat , which is owned by Tencent — one of China’s largest technology companies. 12 stay, keeping it up through the US election and Oracle dealmaking.

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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 Damir Davidovic, NEOGOV

socalTECH

No one was really focusing their products and services for those customers in a good way. How difficult has it been to have public institutions accept software-as-a-service, and where is that now in general? They all wanted to deploy the service at their location. We're looking to make it more of a HR platform in the cloud.

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Interview with John Hanna, FunnelSource

socalTECH

One of the startup areas where we've been seeing renewed activity in the last few months is in the enterprise software space--specifically, in software-as-a-service applications targeted at corporate customers. I'd used every CRM tool out there--Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft--you name it, I've used it. Lots of people do ask that question.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. I’m not covering the actual layers of the Internet (under the OSI model) but rather the Cloud Services layer. Let me explain. I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders.

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

socalTECH

That data can come from an existing business intelligence system, like SAP, Oracle, IBM, or Salesforce.com. Quinton Alsbury: One of the surprising things to us, which is you wouldn't think that launching a new startup, on a very new technology platform at the time, the iPhone, would get you the biggest companies in the world.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

Both Sides of the Table

Immediately after the acquisition we held meetings with all of the integrated CMS vendors and highlighted to them which bits we were going to make our core platform and which bits we weren’t planning to offer ourselves. Specifically we encouraged vertical applications like financial services and healthcare.