It’s interesting. Some of our early Coupa customer conversations have included Systems Integrators. And SI’s seem to have a really good view on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to Procurement tools (and enterprise software in general).
One interesting fact that comes up again and again is how hard it is to find a […]
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Late last year I began recovering from all the Oracle technology cool-aid I’d read, repeated, and internalized. And as I mentioned previously, I began to recoil from the complexity of Java. Imho some of the IDE’s around Java simply make it worse - a complex wrapper around a verbose language. And before the flame mails […]
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This July 4th I’m traveling to Portland, Oregon. Portland, for those that don’t know, is arguably the US capital of open source. I was surprised to find it a hotbed of open source thought leadership and activity, and I’m told it’s been that way for some time. It’s wonderful to sit in a Starbucks and […]
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For those interested in technology and its relationship with entrepreneurship, I'd recommend reading Paul Graham's 2001 article called Beating the Averages. It talks about Paul's experiences starting up a firm that in the end became Yahoo! Stores. He explains why he and his co-founder chose LISP, a programming language that no one uses, and why […]
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