SNRC Industry Seminar Series - "The End of Software"

When: Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Time: 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM

Location: Skilling Auditorium

Abstract

Even technology industry analysts and seasoned IT executives have difficulty putting a hard figure on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of today's enterprise application solutions. What makes the equation so tricky is the sheer number of variables that must be factored in, many of which cannot be lined up in a neat column and reconciled, such as issues of security, availability, performance, problem resolution and change management. Dr. Timothy Chou, under whose leadership Oracle Online has become one of the top three companies that customers look to for application management and outsourcing, challenges conventional approaches to business software and proposes new alternatives to managing and maintaining the systems that companies depend on.

Biography

Dr. Timothy Chou was most recently the President of Oracle corporation's fastest growing business, Oracle On Demand. Oracle On Demand provides software on demand for over a quarter million users globally. Under his leadership this business reached $200M in annual revenue and serviced Fortune 500 customers as well as those in the mid-market around the world. Not only has Dr. Chou led a significant new business at Oracle, he is also recognized as an industry leader and has been featured in Forbes, Business Week and The Economist. In addition he serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Embarcadero Technologies (EMBT) and is also a member of the Advisory Board of Webex Corporation (WEBX).

Prior to his appointment to head up Oracle On Demand, Dr. Chou held numerous leadership positions including Tandem Computers and Reasoning, Inc, where he was Chief Operating Officer.

Dr. Chou began his career after earning his Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to his career in the high tech industry he has been a lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University for over 15 years. He holds several patents and recently authored the book “The End of Software.”

(The SNRC Industry Seminar Series and the CS-548 Seminar are combined for this quarter. (please note the time change "to accommodate the course")