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Eating Our Own Dog Food
One of the really great things about the Act-On Marketing Service is that we use it ourselves for our online marketing efforts to…
Macs vs PCs
This is not a hardware question. It is Microsoft Windows vs OS X (OS X kicks butt) and Microsoft Windows vs Linux (Linux…
Cloud Computing Update
The beta test cluster in the cloud has been a huge success. We recently discovered Amazon EBS. Wow! We were about to plunk…
Java Uber Alles
We have not thought much about localizing the Act-On service. Imagine our shock/surprise when 2 of our customers (Secure Computing and BroadVision) informed…
Cloud Computing
We have been looking at Amazon EC2, and we like it. A lot. The economics are simple and compelling for us. A single…
In The Wall Street Journal!!!
Wow! Talk about product placement! And we had no idea this was even coming! I opened the paper this morning and was flabbergasted to…
Enterprise? SMB?
We have built a platform that can serve enterprise customers as well as SMB customers. The reason is that we are going after…
Outsourcing
When I started this company, I set out to build a small and efficient team right here in Portland, Oregon. Outsourcing was the…
Corporate Funding
I cannot speak about the pros and cons of corporate funding vs. venture capital in general, but having Cisco as our A Round…