Friday, February 27, 2004


Interview with Chris Capdevila, CEO of Logical Apps
Chris Capdevila is CEO of Logical Apps (www.logicalapps.com), an Irvine-based company providing business rule and workflow software solutions for Oracle applications. BK: What does Logical Apps do, and what are your products? CC: Logical Apps delivers business process management solutions for Oracle Applications. Faced with rigid applications, organizations today are forced to perform "system surgery" on their applications to meet their ever-changing business requirements. With business (More info...)
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Kofax Announces Document Capture Solution
Irvine-based Kofax (www.kofax.com) has introduced a new document capture solution for the desktop. The company's new Capio product helps users automatically scan, store, and retrieve paper documents, helping to reduce desktop clutter and paper.
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Ixia Adds SONET Testing Tools
Calabasas-based Ixia (www.ixiacom.com) has shipped a new network card driver for its IxANVL protocol conformance testing software. The software supports testing of OC-48 and OC-192 Packet over Sonet (POS) networks, and the new driver extends testing capability to new high speed network interfaces, including 10 Gig Ethernet, ATM, T1/E1, and much more.
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VeriSign Sues ICANN
Internet domain registrar VeriSign is again going up against the Internet's key nonprofit oversight organization, Marina del Rey-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), claming that the body is slow and inconsistent. VeriSign has sued in Los Angeles requesting damages and injunctive relief against ICANN. VeriSign has consistently clashed with ICANN and others over what many have seen as aggressive tactics to claim Internet territory. Last fall, VeriSign launched SiteFi (More info...)
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Interview: Dan Herchenroether, Author of Selling Air
I'm diverging today from my usual interviews of CEOs, venture capitalist, and others in the local high tech industry to interview Dan Herchenroether, author of Selling Air (www.sellingair.com). Dan contacted me and sent over a copy of his book, a fictional account of selling enterprise software. I'm usually just a nonfiction person (business and technical books), but I was impressed enough by the book to read it all the way through a few weekends ago. BK: What's your background, and why di (More info...)
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