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Ryan Orban

Ryan Orban

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Enterprise Software

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  1. VMware to Cut 900 Jobs

    VMware cut 900 jobs in January 2013 as part of an 'exit from certain business lines' — shares fell 15%. A signal of the strategic pressure the company was under from OpenStack and public cloud, even before AWS had clearly won.

  2. Forget Virality, Selling Enterprise Software Is Still Old School

    Roman Stanek's TechCrunch piece arguing that enterprise software sales haven't changed despite the SaaS revolution — it's still about relationships, trust, and executive champions, not viral loops. The consumer-product playbook doesn't transfer.

  3. Data-Visualization Firm's New Software Autonomously Finds Abstract Connections

    Wired's profile of Ayasdi and its Iris software — a topological data analysis platform that finds abstract structure in high-dimensional data without the analyst specifying what to look for. Raises the question of whether a machine can find connections a human wouldn't have thought to look for.

  4. Ayasdi: Automatic Insight Discovery

    Ayasdi's homepage — the Stanford TDA spinout offering automatic pattern discovery in high-dimensional data. Saved alongside the Wired article about their Iris platform.

  5. The VMware Spinoff Returns: Pivotal

    GigaOm's 2012 piece on the VMware/EMC spinoff that became Pivotal — a company formed from Cloud Foundry, Pivotal Labs, Spring, and Gemfire assets to compete in the enterprise cloud platform space. Pivotal IPO'd in 2018 and was acquired by VMware in 2019.

  6. The Enterprise Strikes Back — Suhail Doshi

    Suhail Doshi's 2012 essay on the return of enterprise software as a viable startup target — written as consumer apps were crowded and enterprise was being 'consumerized' by Dropbox, Box, and Yammer. Captures the SaaS era's opening.

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