PART IIntroduction
In 1987 Dave Duffield and Ken Morris founded PeopleSoft. Duffield and Morris set out to develop a non-specific database application based on client/server architecture, and within a year they released the starting point for PeopleSoft’s outstanding application suite: PeopleSoft Human Resource Management System (HRMS). Duffield’s background in HRM systems dates to his time as CEO of Integral Systems—the first company to offer DB2-based human resource and accounting systems. He had the idea to change the mainframe versions of Integral System’s mainframe HRMS package to client/server architecture, which at the time was very new technology. Duffield also co-founded Information Associates, which specialized in applications for ... |
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