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  • It hired ninety employees, bought lots of expensive servers and database software licenses from Oracle, and paid Web-development firms Sapient and Scient millions to develop features.

    The Facebook Effect David Kirkpatrick 2010

  • Before the crash, dot-coms and their execs spent lavishly on parties, such as the March wedding of one start-up founder who flew Elton John and his piano in on two different jets to perform (the exec's company, e-consulting firm Scient, recently laid off 460 employees, one fourth of its staff).

    Finally, The Net Gets Real 2008

  • And they answered, ‘Extolled be Allah sole Scient of the hidden things. 489’ Quoth I, ‘My father died, leaving much of money, and I fear lest any have a claim against him for a debt or a pledge490 or what not else, and I desire to discharge my father’s obligations towards the folk.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Wright finally settled on 40-year-old Dan Stone, former head of a division at Scient that built Web businesses for media and entertainment companies.

    Space.com Is Back In Orbit Lou Dobbs' Space.com Is Back In Orbit 2006

  • I have just unloaded the last of my now worthless shares in my dot-com era employer, the one-time eBusiness consultancy Scient.

    YAUT*: Fog Creek Copilot lav_reviews 2005

  • Viant and Scient, billion-dollar consulting companies one minute, were bankrupt consulting companies the next when IBM and EDS moved in.

    Jim Cramer's Real Money James J. Cramer 2005

  • A belated comment: Plexity sounds like one of those invented names for corporations that sound like they should be words, but aren't, like Agilent, Accenture, Viant and Scient all real.

    languagehat.com: PLEXITY. 2005

  • Viant and Scient, billion-dollar consulting companies one minute, were bankrupt consulting companies the next when IBM and EDS moved in.

    Jim Cramer's Real Money James J. Cramer 2005

  • Interesting you mentioned “Scient, Viant, and Razorfish” Cuz these were the very same companies I had in my mind when I started to look for a job in 1998-99 :D I was so upbeat I even bought shares of one of the companies.

    The World is Flat, So Is the Stock Market. 2005

  • I provided a full history and all the secrets I knew about Scient Ology.

    Steve Steve arrives in New Mexico - The Panda's Thumb 2005

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