abstract:Plumtree Software is a former software company founded in 1996 by product managers and engineers from Oracle and Informix with funding from Sequoia Capital. The company was a pioneer of extending the portal concept popularized by Yahoo!
John Kim, 29, was on day four at his job at PlumtreeSoftware when the company cofounder Glenn Kelman asked him to fix the firm's demonstration Web site.
The chief executive of PlumtreeSoftware 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.