Mark Hoffman and Bob Epstein's company; Erik Freed architected the distributed database that never shipped
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Sybase — Mark Hoffman and Bob Epstein's database company in Emeryville — is in this record as a talent forge: Erik Freed was the distribution architect of its next-generation distributed database, a product that never shipped and was named, in Jonathan Hare's recollection, for some classical-music thing he can no longer retrieve — the name is an open ask. Hare hired Freed at Evolve, and around him assembled what he rates the best technical talent pool of any of his companies: Rich Muth, Brian Anderson, Peter Wisnofsky and more, drawn from the East Bay database world that Sybase and the Berkeley Stonebraker lineage had trained.
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CTO at Evolve, founder of InfoCanvas — which became Consilient
Open →led byOne half of the Emeryville database company that trained Consilient's bench
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Open →the other half of the East Bay database world withThe professor whose database dynasty staffed the East Bay, Consilient's bench included
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