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Investor’s Business Daily: Firms Make Open, Closed Cases For Powerful Software Programs

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 21, 2005

“It’s easy to see why Marc Fleury’s numerous enemies accuse the
37-year-old CEO of having a god complex.

“By his account, his 100-person software firm is responsible for
a 40% drop in shares of BEA Systems over the last two years. It has
sparked at least one IBM acquisition. And it forced Sun
Microsystems last spring to give away the software recipe to its
Web application software…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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