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It’s Oracle | Business & Technology Nexus
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Business and Technology Nexus. Dave Stephens on technology and business trends. Leave a comment ». After getting Coupa off the ground many of my friends and colleagues predicted I would return to Oracle. I loved working at Oracle the first time around. And now that I’ve co-founded my own enterprise software firm I feel I have much more to contribute. But I will do more than watch. I’m ready to roll up my sleeves and help. Written by Dave Stephens. 11/14/09 7:49 PM at 7:49 pm. Life Back at Redwood Shores.
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SaaS and Profitability | Business & Technology Nexus
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Business and Technology Nexus. Dave Stephens on technology and business trends. It’s been interesting to monitor profits for public SaaS companies over time. Ever since Bruce Richardson’s 2008 research report “ SaaS and the elusive path to profitability. 8221; I’ve been looking for examples where gross margins look like they will trend towards the 40 points that so often seem the target for the wold’s best software businesses. So far, I haven’t seen it. Written by Dave Stephens. There has been a 27 perce...
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Business & Technology Nexus | Dave Stephens on technology and business trends | Page 2
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Business and Technology Nexus. Dave Stephens on technology and business trends. The Coming $19B “Obama Flood” in EMR Software? My wife is a family practice physician. Her clinic, FINALLY, is installing an electronic medical records. System. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve felt sick to my stomach while walking through her clinic looking at. Wall after wall of floor-to-ceiling files. I’ve been intrigued, as a procurement guy, how clinics and hospitals and other points-of-care are going abou...
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OOW 2011 | Business & Technology Nexus
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Business and Technology Nexus. Dave Stephens on technology and business trends. Leave a comment ». Tomorrow San Francisco will get crazy with OOW’ers. I’m excited to be there for two reasons:. 1- To share more of the Sun systems integration story and to talk publicly about our work at Oracle Applications Labs. 2- To witness the unveiling of a project we’ve kept under wraps for quite some time @ Larry Ellison’s Wednesday keynote. Written by Dave Stephens. 10/1/11 8:20 PM at 8:20 pm. Enter your comment here.
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Transfigured Open Source | Business & Technology Nexus
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Business and Technology Nexus. Dave Stephens on technology and business trends. A few years ago, Linux appeared to be headed towards dominance in the server OS market. At the same time, MySQL “broke out” and seemed on its way towards making databases free. At layer after layer in the technology stack, open source was cool and moving forward. Here in 2009 the scene has changed. It feels very different. Microsoft’s server OS seems to be faring better than expected vs. Linux. And Oracle has be...As a fan of...
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Life Back at Redwood Shores | Business & Technology Nexus
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Business and Technology Nexus. Dave Stephens on technology and business trends. Life Back at Redwood Shores. Leave a comment ». Written by Dave Stephens. 02/25/10 5:33 PM at 5:33 pm. Laquo; It’s Oracle. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment:. Email (Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Life Back at Redwood Shores.
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October | 2009 | Business & Technology Nexus
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Business and Technology Nexus. Dave Stephens on technology and business trends. Archive for October 2009. Commoditization and “High” Technology. Is any software company out there truly deserving of being called “high” tech any more? What happens etymologically when upstart high tech companies compete over the span of decades and commoditize space after space after space. At some point shouldn’t we stop associating them with the “high” part of high-tech? Because the cost of developing software is racing t...
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November | 2007 | Business & Technology Nexus
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Business and Technology Nexus. Dave Stephens on technology and business trends. Archive for November 2007. Google Set To Bid On Spectrum. Leave a comment ». Back in late July I wrote a quick entry about Google’s interest in the wireless spectrum auction to be conducted shortly. It’s here. Marguerite Reardon has a write-up over at C Net. Written by Dave Stephens. 11/17/07 3:05 PM at 3:05 pm. Why SEO Can Hurt Your Web Presence. Leave a comment ». We ( Coupa Software, my on demand e-Procurement company.
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October | 2011 | Business & Technology Nexus
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Business and Technology Nexus. Dave Stephens on technology and business trends. Archive for October 2011. Leave a comment ». Tomorrow San Francisco will get crazy with OOW’ers. I’m excited to be there for two reasons:. 1- To share more of the Sun systems integration story and to talk publicly about our work at Oracle Applications Labs. 2- To witness the unveiling of a project we’ve kept under wraps for quite some time @ Larry Ellison’s Wednesday keynote. Written by Dave Stephens. On The Future of Sourcing.
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Starbucks Soymilk Price Gouging Cover-Up | Business & Technology Nexus
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Business and Technology Nexus. Dave Stephens on technology and business trends. Starbucks Soymilk Price Gouging Cover-Up. My wife read my previous Starbucks post, smiled, paused, then asked me to write a smack-down for a B.S. email response she received on why they charge extra for soy milk. Their justification was that soy milk costs more to Purchase, to Stock, and to Prepare. Don’t believe me? Here’s the email:. Written by Dave Stephens. 03/3/07 9:45 AM at 9:45 am. Subscribe to comments with RSS. For s...