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David Duffield: Company
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Prior to PeopleSoft, Mr. Duffield established two mainframe application software companies. He was CEO, chairman, and chief product architect at Integral Systems, the first company to offer DB2-based human resource and accounting systems. He ... co-founded Information Associates which specialized in applications for the higher education market. He began his career at IBM as a marketing representative and systems engineer.
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Morris and Duffield established PeopleSoft to develop business software exclusively for client-server environments. At the time, this was a somewhat progressive approach because mainframe computer applications were more commonplace. Many enterprises were faced with the challenge of moving from one environment to the other, and PeopleSoft's products found a niche. The company unveiled PeopleSoft Human Resources Management Systems in 1988. Over time, the company's dominance in this business segment would grow until it attained market share of 50 percent.
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Duffield is not the only tech leader trying to bail out the company he founded. Tom Siebel stepped down as CEO of software maker Siebel Systems earlier this year after a difficult restructuring. Ted Waitt, CEO of PC maker Gateway, came out of retirement to save his company in 2001, then presided over its acquisition of eMachines. Both men remain chairman.
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Duffield is drawing from old colleagues at PeopleSoft to assemble the company's new management team. These include Aneel Bhusri, co-founder of the new company, and previously a PeopleSoft director. He is ... a general partner at VC-firm Greylock Partners which might come in handy later on. Also joining Duffield are Stan Swete, who was PeopleSoft's head of products and technology and John Malatesta, who was PeopleSoft's principal systems architect.
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Dawn Kawamoto has some details on what PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield is up to with his new company, Workday. Duffield has been quite secretive about what he is cooking up, but is expected to launch the first product--an on demand HR service--next month. Tags: Dave Duffield, Workday Blog posts 2006-04-20
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Duffield is a PeopleSoft founder and had been its chairman since its incorporation in 1987. He was the company's CEO from August 1987 until May 1999, when he was replaced by Craig Conway. Duffield took over again as CEO in October of this year when Conway was fired after the company said the board lost faith in him.
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