In a similar vein was Siebel Systems, founded and run by another Oracle alum, Thomas Siebel.
Prior to joining EA, Toledano served as chief human resources officer for Siebel Systems.
Yet DirecTV had to buy more computing power to handle the latest release of Siebel Systems' sales--management software.
Yet DirecTV had to buy more computing power to handle the latest release of Siebel Systems' sales-management software.
Some of my own bullish calls made in this column--Global Crossing, Worldcom, Siebel Systems--retain only the smell of bull.
Tom Siebel, a star Oracle salesman, left in 1990 to found Siebel Systems when Ellison rejected his idea for a sales-force product.
Even without its just-announced deal for big rival Siebel Systems, Oracle has 8, 500 banking clients, and they include 17 of the top 20 global banks.
"The federal government needs to think long and hard and move slowly, " said Mr. Repko, a former executive with Oracle Corp. and Siebel Systems Inc.
Web--based software from Salesforce.com competes with Siebel Systems, and every business that "rents" usage from Salesforce avoids having to buy a server to run Siebel's code.
In a similar vein was Siebel Systems (nasdaq: SEBL - news - people ), founded and run by another Oracle alum, Thomas Siebel.
Web-based software from Salesforce.com competes with Siebel Systems, and every business that "rents" usage from Salesforce avoids having to buy a server to run Siebel's code.
But when he started Siebel Systems in 1993, he applied an Oracle tactic in reverse: to make the customer, not sales quotas, the center of the world.
It says that it was poaching so much business from a more traditional seller of customer-relations software, Siebel Systems, that Siebel had to adopt the model itself.
Edwards and Siebel Systems (nasdaq: SEBL - news - people ), get scooped up by Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ).
As an entrepreneur, I was a founding shareholder of eBay, Siebel Systems (sold to Oracle) and Qik (sold to Skype), and am currently vice-chairman of a new start-up, PatientKey Inc.
In the public sector realm, Gianforte says RightNow goes up most against Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ), given its 2006 acquisition of customer software concern Siebel Systems.
Before that he was at Siebel Systems.
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Without admitting or denying the allegations, Raytheon (nyse: RTN - news - people ), Secure Computing (nasdaq: SCUR - news - people ) and Siebel Systems (nasdaq: SEBL - news - people ) were ordered to cease and desist from further violations.
Oracle has been selling application suites for several years, but now it is adding the capability to tie its suite into applications from competitors like Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ), Siebel Systems (nasdaq: SEBL - news - people ) and PeopleSoft (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people ).
It was 1992 and I was selling sales automation systems for Siebel.
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