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Add comment April 26th, 2006 David Bush - Iasta

Last night I got the opportunity to have a 3 hour dinner with Dave Stephens, who has his own blog: Procurement Central. Dave spent 10 years at Oracle, mostly running the Procurement Applications area. Oracle still has releases in the pipeline that come from Dave’s original plans - pretty impressive.

Oracle’s significant loss has been my significant gain. There is no way we would have met had he not decided to go his own route. It was a tremendous amount of fun to share stories from both sides of the fence and learn how a big company works compared to a small company. Most of all, I respect Dave’s opinions and we spoke extensively about the Iasta plan and position in the marketplace.

He shared many stories from the old days at Oracle which I will leave to him to post on Procurement Central, there are some good ones. I left the dinner feeling very good about our position in the market hierarchy and that our plans going forward were going to be effective. Starting Iasta, we knew no one in the industry, had no friends in high places to provide revenue and had no Board or investors that could give direction (that was probably a good thing). I see Dave as a new friend and my own personal Consigliere. Its time to go to the mattresses!

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