Other sippl accomplishments included being co-founder and chairman of Vantive Corporation,[4] and the CEO and founder of Visigenic:[5] three companies he took public.
While still a student at UC Berkeley, he obtained a full-time position as a programmer for Bechtel.
Moving on to Cromemco, he landed a job as a programmer working for Harry Garland and Roger Melen.
Needing more money, Sippl sold 10% of Relational Database Systems, Inc. to his then future wife for $20,000.
It was the beginning of three tier architecture and helped pioneer distributed object computing and the concept of the application server based on CORBA.
The company's main product is the Connection Cloud, an SQL-based Platform as a Service for SaaS data.
The public companies include Informix, Vantive, SupportSoft, and Interwoven, as well as having represented the software industry on the X/OPEN Board of Directors.
[8] Sippl and his wife, Liz, have raised three children, and enjoy an active, outdoorsy life.