"Content Refinery" Employee Alumni Site
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"Content Refinery" Employee Alumni Site |
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Here is a timeline with SOME dates and milestones. Anyone with dates to add, please send them along ... thanks! June 28, 1999 - Commerce One San Diego formed. Original group of ten start the content services group for Commerce One. Reporting to K.C. December 1999 - Commerce One stock hits a high of $993.00 on NASDAQ. January 2000 - Mergent Systems acquired by Commerce One. Content Services grouped with new division. We all learned of our new reporting chain through a press release. Reporting to A.B. June 2000 - Product Management (M.M.) and Engineering (M.L., S.P.) make a play to sell us off to Requisite. This is the beginning of very uncertain times and an ever tenuous relationship with the mother ship known as Commerce One. October 2000 - Last new hires for San Diego.... January 2001 - A.B. leaves Commerce One and Content San Diego is assigned to R.S. January 2001 - First round of lay-offs hit. June 2001 - Rumblings of a new venture that included SAP. A new business spin-off. September 2001 - Something happened with SAP and whatever was in the works fell through. R.S. leaves Commerce One and we are assigned to S.H. October 2001 - Hello eScout. Initial deal established to sell group to eScout. November 2001 - Users Group. Commerce One.net and Content deemed important and eScout deal called off. Temporarily assigned to B.F. (Long live Zoho....) December 2001 - Content and Commerce One.net formally merged as one unit. Assigned to B.M. February 28, 2002 - Surprise visit by SN and MM of Commerce One Corporate. Thought that might be day to close the office. April 16, 2002 - Effective date of layoff. Major round hits the office. Most believe it is BM's way of paying for upgrades in Pleasanton. While we lost some of the original core through attrition, this round hits at the core of the office. Lose 1/3 of the office and some very good friends. September ?? 2002 - BM leaves Commerce One and we have yet another leader ... number six ... in GM. Later we find out it is merely to pave the way for the eScout deal once again. October 2002 - Another round of lay-offs.... December 19, 2002 - Almost eighteen months after original discussions with SAP, and 14 months after discussions with eScout, we are sold. Tentative deal is signed with C1 and eScout. GM leaves C1 to take a job with eScout. January 2003 - eScout deal officially consummated. We have our last interim boss, DK. February 21, 2003 - Decision day. Proposal made to eScout about future of office in San Diego. March 2003 - Offers formally extended to seven Commerce One employees by eScout. Five accept. March 15, 2003 - First of the transition team members are let go by eScout. April 2003 - More transition team members move on. May 2003 - All but one Commerce One employee is left as part of the eScout transition. Suite 200 is supposed to officially close and the team move to new offices down the hall... Miscellaneous: Recap of lineage of bosses ... KC, AB, RS, SH, BF, BM, GM, DK. What a ride!!! |
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