Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 5)

SM: Is there anything in the software-as-a-service world that you are observing or that you could tie up with? KL: Traditionally all of those IT systems have been client-server types of relationships. All of the newer point solutions emerging are using the software-as-a-service model.

Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 4)

SM: You came into the company in 2004. What were the first few things you did? KL: I didn’t have to change the company in a radical way. I looked at the market opportunity for how much physicians and health care professionals would spend for software and reference materials. That is a $400 million market.

Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 3)

SM: You did two companies prior to Epocrates which were focused on content? KL: PublishOne and ScreamingMedia were content-oriented. SM: After ScreamingMedia you were recruited to Epocrates? KL: I sold ScreamingMedia to CBS in 2004.

Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 2)

SM: Where did you go after Apple? KL: I went to Silicon Graphics in 1993. They recruited me away because they wanted to build a developer organization like the one Apple had. That was a tough story.

Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 1)

Kirk Loevner began his career with VisiCorp in the early 1980s before moving to Apple, where he worked for the next ten years. Afterwards he worked at Silicon Graphics, as the CEO of Internet Shopping Network, and then founded PublishOne in November 1998. He then was the CEO and chairman of Pinnacor (ScreamingMedia) from December

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Commercial OpenSource: SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson (Part 7)

SM: What should I have aksed you that I didn’t? Where do you go from here? RJ: We spend the next couple of years getting up to the level of revenue, assuming we perform to our projections, that will allow us to go public. Hopefully the IPO market will be back.

Commercial OpenSource: SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson (Part 6)

SM: I do like that you initially started out as a bootstrapped company. Do you think that helped you focus in the beginning? RJ: One reason I am happy that we waited for three years prior to being funded, aside from figuring things out without the potentially unwanted help from VCs, is that we had

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Commercial OpenSource: SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson (Part 5)

SM: If you are doing an OpenSource application server I have no problem gauging the size of that market. RJ: Obviously there was already one significant player in that space, JBoss. JBoss was really largely a commodity play similar to MySQL. We have previously brought genuine, new ideas to market, and that is what we

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