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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, March 29th, 2010 / Uncategorized / Comments Off on Former MySQL exec to spearhead Eucalyptus
As a chief executive, Marten Mickos took MySQL, the open-source database firm whose technology powers Facebook and other Web sites, from a startup to its $1 billion sale to Sun Microsystems in 2008. On March 19, Mickos became CEO of Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems, an open-source software firm whose code forms private cloud computing networks and Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, March 29th, 2010 / Opinion / Comments Off on A green future
The green economy holds great promise for the tri-county region. With thousands of jobs at stake, some interesting new players are emerging on the economic development scene. Sen. Tony Strickland, the Republican who won the narrowest of victories in a contested district, scored points when he backed a bill to exempt green manufacturing equipment from Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, March 29th, 2010 / Opinion / Comments Off on Can the government make health care work?
With speed that seemed amazing for a Congress that never seems in a hurry to do anything, nearly $1 trillion in new spending on health care has become the law of the land. While most pundits are focused on the upcoming political season and what it might mean for the Democrats and control of Congress, Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, March 29th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Limoneira readies for Wall Street
Santa Paula-based Limoneira is ready to put a sour year behind it as it gears up to become a fully publicly traded company in coming months. In mid-February, the citrus and avocado giant filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission to begin trading its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The move to Wall Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, March 29th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Dining dilemma
Fine dining is a tough business in downtown Santa Barbara. Even a helping hand from a Hollywood star sometimes isn’t enough to pull a family business through. Consider Epiphany Restaurant & Bar. After eight and a half years in business and backing from onetime co-owner Kevin Costner, the Academy Award-winning actor who maintains a villa Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, March 29th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Banks bring $100M in capital into region
Some $100 million in new capital has poured into tri-county banks in recent weeks, providing a potential new flow of credit to businesses. But how fast that new cash translates into loans depends on the remaining fallout from the recession and what regulators are willing to allow as commercial real estate bottoms. While economists called Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, March 29th, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Economists: coastal regions better than inland, but state faces exodus
Inland and coastal California might as well be two different worlds — at least that’s the view of California Lutheran University real estate economist Kirk Lesh. Lesh and the rest of CLU’s forecasting team presented their first economic prophecies for the new year at a March 24 event at the Thousand Oaks campus. Lesh Read More →
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