Though as a former top executive at software giant SAP, Agassi was not exactly a typical startup guy.
Later, Otellini brought on stage an executive from software start-up eJamming.
Mr. Wilson, chief executive of software maker Cazoomi Technology Corp.
But Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive for software and systems at IBM, insists big data does not represent a huge paradigm change in processes or results.
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The company's broker has warned the law could mean a rate hike of 30% to 40%, and "that's not something I want to pay, " said Don Fornes, chief executive of Software Advice, based in Austin, Texas.
Elop was chief executive of multimedia software company Macromedia before its 2005 acquisition by Adobe.
"If you want space to stay, it's gotta pay, " says the onetime software executive.
Liu also criticized them for participating in a "hasty" decision to hire former software executive Leo Apotheker in 2010.
Elop was chief executive of multimedia software company Macromedia before its 2005 acquisition by Adobe (nasdaq: ADBE - news - people ).
Shenkman, a longtime business software executive, has led teams responsible for more than 40 acquisitions, and he is currently vice president of corporate development at SAP.
Richard Williamson, who was responsible for the maps service in Apple devices, was dismissed by Eddy Cue, a senior software executive at the company, Bloomberg reported.
Any share you give up today may be worth more tomorrow, says Didier Moretti, chief executive of Annuncio Software, a Mountain View, Calif. firm that automates Web marketing.
Another, proposed by former software executive Shai Agassi, entails electric filling stations at which car owners would make a quick swap of a depleted battery for a charged battery.
The other firm in the mining race, Planetary Resources, has backing from several billionaire investors, including Google's Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, software executive Charles Simonyi and filmmaker James Cameron.
"It's still unproven that people will go from paying zero to a reliable but paid for service, " Rob Glaser, chief executive of media software giant, RealNetworks, said earlier this year.
The chief executive of Plumtree Software was huddled with his vice president of field operations, James Flatley , and the chief information officer at Alcoa, a customer they had recently signed up.
But Pittman, chief executive at a software startup called Groxis , has always had a problem with Google and other search engines like it: Your results come back without any meaning or context.
Mr. Gibson, a software executive, knew about LifeImage's services through his work, and he reached a contact there who helped him send the MRI within minutes to Boston Children's Hospital, a LifeImage customer.
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Chief Executive Deborah Besemer says software revenues this year will be ten times what they were in 1999, though she won't provide a number.
All this grew out of an almost ludicrously elementary business plan hatched in 1995 by Ross Garber, a software marketing executive, and Neil Webber, an MIT-educated computer scientist.
The chief executive of Business Intelligence software company Microstrategy is remembered for his flamboyant pronouncements, and sketchy bookkeeping that led to a spectacular corporate crash (and payment to the Securities and Exchange Commission) in the dotcom era.
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According to Rony Ross, founder and executive chairman of Panorama Software, a provider of business intelligence software to 1, 600 customers in 30 countries, the secret to successful negotiating is to take the ego out of the equation.
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At 5 feet 10 inches, the software-company executive from Newport, California, then 40, was 280 pounds.
One message was clear: Microsoft's chief executive was keen to evangelize software developers to create programs just for Windows.
Thompson, senior vice president and group executive at IBM's Software group, in Somers.
Blinkx Chief Executive Suranga Chandratillake says the software can also recognize written words and even a small library of faces.
"The public guys are giving better terms, " said Brian Halligan, chief executive of Silicon Valley marketing software startup HubSpot Inc.
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