Crosspoint, the three-year champ, benefited from routermaker Juniper Networks and e-commerce software provider Ariba.
Ryu served as the vice president of strategy for Ariba (Nasdaq:ARBA) from 1999 to 2001.
He then left for Ariba, where he worked in a variety of roles, including chief technology officer.
Formed in 1995, it gained fame by putting money into Ebay and big winners like Ariba and HandSpring.
Mr. Federighi later left for business-to-business software company Ariba Inc. before being recruited back to Apple in 2009.
The two companies made other cloud purchases, including RightNow Technologies and Ariba Inc.
Ariba, which made purchase-automation software, began its shift in May 2004 and launched its first two Web offerings in October 2005.
Dunham advises investors looking for SaaS exposure to buy Ariba instead.
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Companies like Microsoft, Oracle and Ariba rely on ideas, almost purely.
Ariba (bought by SAP in 2012) and Concur Technologies both successfully transitioned from packaged software to an on-demand model, and both stocks were severely punished in the interim.
The acquisition of Ariba ups the total by about 0.5%.
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Federighi worked at NeXT, followed by Apple, and then spent a decade at Ariba where he held several roles including vice president of Internet Services and chief technology officer.
Tim Minahan is chief marketing officer at Ariba.
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Among the largest underlying components of VB, in trading today BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. ( NASD: BMRN) is up about 0.1%, Royal Gold, Inc. ( NASD: RGLD) is up about 1.1%, and Ariba Inc. ( NASD: ARBA) is relatively unchanged.
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Among the largest underlying components of VB, in trading today BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. ( NASD: BMRN) is up about 1.7%, Royal Gold, Inc. ( NASD: RGLD) is up about 0.4%, and Ariba Inc. ( NASD: ARBA) is relatively unchanged.
B2B spin-out, the executives of such firms are easy targets for fast-moving e-business software providers such as Commerce One (the aerospace victor), Oracle and Ariba, which often propose the deal and promise to do most of the hard work.
In an attempt to fend off a growing group of challengers, SAP has been investing heavily in acquiring cloud companies including recently Ariba and SuccessFactors, as well as building out a global cloud infrastructure, which it plans to offer its enterprise customers.
Meanwhile, the once radical e-sourcing idea has become routine for Tata, which ran 750 reverse auctions on Ariba in the past year to bring down purchasing prices by an average of 7% for everything from ball bearings to the milk served in the company cafeteria.
Nonetheless, whenever discussions are being held about the cloud, the company seems to remain in the shadows of Salesforce.com and to a lesser extent SAP , both of which have opened their wallets to scoop up names such as Buddy Media and Ariba respectively.
With some functional similarities to the online data base jointly announced by IBM, Microsoft, and Ariba earlier this month, the Red Hat Network will serve as a central warehouse where developers can register information on their hardware and software systems, enabling other developers to better pursue joint projects.
After almost a decade of fast growth, the leadership of Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), Ciena Corp ( CIEN), JDS Uniphase ( JDSU), Corning ( GLW) and Ariba Inc. ( ARBA), and Lucent-Alcatel (NYSE: ALU) became complacent and arrogant with success, setting the stage for the eventual slow-down and downfall to irrelevance.
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