Stan Gibson

Picking itself off the mat nearly a year after an unsuccessful proxy bid, Ranger Governance Ltd. of Dallas announced today it will try once again to elect a slate of nominees to Computer Associates International Inc.s board of directors. Ranger Governance is a limited partnership run by Sam Wyly, who owns several million options on […]

There they go again. Its the kind of chutzpah that got them on the wrong side of Judge Jackson. Now Microsofts lawyers seem bent on trying the patience of Judge Kollar-Kotelly. Responding to a request to come up with areas of potential compromise, the Redmond legal team declined in a way that could be construed […]

I cant wait until we return to normal. ah, but what is normal? Normal, to hear some people describe it, is circa 1999. Thats the way we want and expect things to be in a prosperous economy: a booming stock market and rising productivity driven by technology. Thats when you reasonably could be expected to […]

Timing is everything, and Lou Gerstner has it. Gerstner, of course, took over IBM at its nadir, brought it back to prosperity and then left, just months before massive layoffs and what could be the first quarterly loss in eight years. (OK, Lou is still chairman through the end of the year, but you can […]

When you watch something long enough, patterns emerge. When you watch something a really long time, you start to think youre watching the sequel to a B movie. Why is it that every time I hear Scott McNealy or listen to a Sun strategy pitch, I think its circa 1987, and Im listening to Ken […]

Gerald Cohen is president of Information Builders Inc., a company that he founded in 1975. Last year, the New York City-based business intelligence software maker spun off a subsidiary, iWay, to develop and sell enterprise integration middleware. Information Builders, meanwhile, retained WebFocus, the companys core business intelligence product. Last week at the Information Builders Summit […]

Gordon Stitt is president and CEO of Extreme Networks Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif. Stitt co-founded Extreme in 1996 and led the company to a public offering in 1999. The company built its early success on Gigabit Ethernet and Layer 3 switching technologies and, although it was hit hard by the broad decline in the […]

LAS VEGAS — Though a strong worldwide supplier of equipment to telecommunications carriers, Alcatel is highly interested in supplying equipment to enterprise network customers as well. That was the message delivered by Serge Tchuruk, Chairman and CEO of Alcatel in a keynote address at the spring NetWorld+Interop conference here. “We are very committed to the […]

In a renewal of hostilities after last summers bitter proxy battle, dissident shareholders called once again for the ouster of top management at Computer Associates International Inc. In a letter to CAs board of directors on behalf of Ranger Governance Ltd., a Dallas-based investment company founded and controlled by Sam Wyly, resignations were requested of […]

CHICAGO–Mobile computing is well beyond the gadget stage and must be integrated with enterprise networks and applications. So say speakers at this years Comdex Chicago 2002 here. The show, formerly a large national event and now a much smaller regional one, served as the backdrop for Research In Motion Ltd.s announcement of the Blackberry 5810, […]

As Lou Gerstner makes ready to exit the IBM stage, to the sound of applause from many observers, he is handing the reins over to a lifetime IBM employee, Sam Palmisano. Most observers are saying its the end of one era and the beginning of another one. The question is, what will the new era […]

Dow Jones Inc. will soon join the businesses coming back to Lower Manhattan when it returns to One World Financial Center, which it vacated on Sept. 11. But the company wont be bringing back its production data center, which has been moved to the companys South Brunswick, N.J., facility. And it will be reducing its […]