Stan Gibson

ORLANDO, Fla.—Although adoption of Intel Corp.s Itanium technology has been slower than ideal, Intel CEO Craig Barrett said his company is paving the way for wider use of the 64-bit CPU on which Intel bet a huge chunk of its future. “Youd always like your technology to move faster,” he said, adding that the processor […]

The cataclysmic events of Sept. 11, 2001, scattered hundreds of Lower Manhattan companies far and wide. One year later, many of those enterprises have re-established flagship offices in the financial district, making sure to keep those offices separate from data operations. The changes mean that the days of an intensely concentrated—and highly vulnerable—world financial nerve […]

Either everyone out there has been laid off, or everyone is on vacation. The response to my recent e-mail solicitation (yes, I expect you to read the tag line at the end of the column) regarding Computer Associates was so extraordinarily light I began to wonder if our IT folks had installed a flame-mail filter. […]

Market researchers: who needs em? The tight economy has left many IT execs asking just that. Its tough to let your people go while keeping subscriptions to Gartner, IDC, Forrester and Aberdeen. Indeed, many businesses have cast their consultancy subscriptions over the side. This, in turn, has thrown some consultancies into disarray. How bad is […]

Fred Amoroso was named president and CEO of META Group, Inc., the Stamford, Conn., information technology market research firm, early this month. He succeeds founder Dale Kutnick, who will remain as chairman. META Group, like other research firms and consultancies, was hit hard by the economic downturn and last year laid off 15 percent of […]

You report to work the same as always, check for voice mail and open your e-mail. Then the receptionist rings. There are federal agents in the lobby. Theyre looking for you. The next thing you know, youre being paraded out the front door of your building in handcuffs to a waiting van that will take […]

Richard Belluzzos affair with the software industry ended in May when he left Microsoft Corp. after less than three years with the company. Last week, Belluzzo announced his return to the hardware arena as the new CEO of storage heavyweight Quantum Corp. He will take over Sept. 3 for current CEO Michel Brown, who will […]

Who was that masked man, anyway?” “I dont know. And I wanted to thank him.” That was the typical type of ending to an episode in “The Lone Ranger” television series. So now that Sam Wyly and his Ranger Governance are riding off into the sunset, the question remains, Do we want to thank them? […]

Computer Associates International Inc. bought peace from dissident shareholder Sam Wyly for $10 million. In exchange, Wyly agreed to desist from all proxy battles for five years and to extend an existing non-compete agreement to five years. CA also agreed to add one more independent board member. Wyly, through his firm, Ranger Governance Ltd. of […]

Jerry Ungerman is president of Check Point Software, a $525 million maker of security software with headquarters in Ramat-Gan, Israel, and Redwood City, Calif. Having in just a few years grown from a start-up to become the dominant vendor of firewall software in the enterprise, Check Point Software now is seeking new markets, principally mobile […]

Robert Dutkowsky became president, CEO and chairman of J.D. Edwards & Co. in January. The Denver-based maker of business and enterprise resource planning software is pushing to integrate and upgrade its own applications, as well as those of companies it has acquired, such as customer resource management applications maker YouCentric Inc., which it bought last […]

Computer Associates International Inc. must deliver better value to shareholders, and the way to do that is to replace top management, said Stephen Perkins, president of Ranger Governance Ltd., in an interview. Ranger, which is backed by Texas entrepreneur Sam Wyly, last year failed in an effort to unseat the entire CA board of directors. […]