CS 309A
Software As A Service
Fall 2007
Gates B03
Tuesdays 4:15-5:30
This will be the 3rd year of the CS309A Seminar. The intent of the seminar series is to expose students, whether they are a Computer Science undergrad or a MBA student, to a wide variety of technology and business models as software companies deliver all software on demand, whether for consumers or business. Leading the seminar series will be Timothy Chou. He was the former President of Oracle On Demand. He authored the book “The End of Software” and has lectured at Stanford off and on for over fifteen year.
DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
CEO of Sun Microsystems
Jonathan Schwartz is President and CEO of Sun Microsystems. Sun is one of the Silicon Valley’s largest technology companies with over $13B in annual revenue. Jonathan has been a strong advocate for Utility Computing. He was one of the first public company CEOs to blog. Read his blog at http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/.
October 2, 2007
Founder & CTO of Collab.net
Mr. Behlendorf was a co-founder of the Apache project, one of the first Open Source projects. As one of the leaders of the open source movement he was featured in Tom Friedman’s book, The World is Flat. In 1998, he founded CollabNet. CollabNet provides a web-based collaborative software development platform to over 1 million users.
tbd.
October 16, 2007
President and CEO of Taleo
Taleo provides on-demand talent management solutions for over 1,000,000 users located in 100 countries around the world. Taleo was founded in 1999 (then named Recruitsoft) and went public in 2005. Today they are over $100M in revenue. Michael will bring a unique perspective to the discussion, as he was formerly the Executive Vice President of Peoplesoft’s service business.
October 23, 2007
President and CEO of Kenexa
Kenexa is a leading end-to-end provider of software, proprietary content, services and process outsourcing that enable organizations to more effectively recruit and retain employees. Nooruddin (Rudy) Karsan co-founded Kenexa in 1987 as a recruiting service and thru both acquisition and divesture steered it to a successful IPO in 2005. Today they are over a $150M in revenue. Read his blog at http://blog.kenexa.com/blogdetails.aspx?u=4.
October 30, 2007
tbd.
President & CEO of Radar Networks
Radar Networks is pioneering what they and others have called Web 3.0, the Semantic Web. The company is currently in stealth mode. Prior to Radar Networks Nova co-founded EarthWeb, who had a successful IPO in 1998. In 1999 Mr. Spivack’s interest in space gave him the opportunity to help pioneer the early days of space tourism when he flew to the edge of space with Space Adventures. Here’s his blog.
Chairman and CEO of Glam Media
Glam Media is a fashion and lifestyle website targeted at women. They have more than 20 million unique visitors in the U.S. and more than 30 million worldwide. Prior to Glam Samir was the Chairman of Emode/Tickle, Inc, which was sold to Monster in June 2004. And prior to Tickle, Arora was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NetObjects, Inc, since its inception in November 1995 to 2001.
Thanksgiving Vacation
Founder of SAP
In 1972, Hasso Plattner together with Dietmar Hopp, Claus Wellenreuther, Hans Werner Hector and Klaus Tschira, founded the software giant SAP AG. He has served as CEO and Chairman and is currently the chairman of the supervisory board. In October 2005, with a donation of 35 million USD, Plattner founded the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University. Students of varying disciplines have been charged with the development of user-friendly innovations.
Chairman and CEO of Dealertrack Holdings
Strategically, DealerTrack’s biggest accomplishment has been its transformation from a pure-play business model focused on credit application transactions to a comprehensive end-to-end sales and finance solution for dealerships across America. And, of course, financially, the success of our initial public offering in December 2005 represents a major accomplishment for the company