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Interview: Doug Michels on the challenges facing Tarantella

...nine months when you originally thought it would be over in three? Doug Michels An acquisition is a process that requires the SEC to approve... Read more

17 August, 2001 by Matt Loney

Tarantella moves closer to Windows

...only available on Unix and Linux operating systems. Tarentella's chief executive Doug Michels has mooted a Windows version of the software in the past... Read more

5 February, 2002 by Matt Loney

The Agenda Setters: SCO chief Michels on the Microsoft battle

...analyses, Silicon.com takes a look at the views of SCO CEO, Doug Michels. Here in abridged textual form, he explains how he's made... Read more

23 September, 1999 by Felicity Ussher

Tarantella is a good catch for Sun

Sun's acquisition of Tarantella, the last remnants of Doug Michels' old Santa Cruz-based SCO Corporation (no, not the other one... Read more

11 May, 2005 by Leader

Tarantella's new chief talks money

...great alternative. They felt we need to get the company into profitability. Doug [Michels, the former chief executive who remains at the company as a... Read more

25 February, 2004 by Matt Loney

Tarantella secures $16m injection

...Chief executive officer Frank Wilde, who joined Tarantella in December to replace Doug Michels, brought in the funding as part of his package to rescue... Read more

24 February, 2004 by Matt Loney

How Tarantella is creeping up on Citrix

...Tarantella, by contrast, has remained relatively quiet, but under the stewardship of Doug Michels it has been far from inactive. The New Moon Systems acquisition... Read more

13 October, 2003 by Matt Loney

Who stole SCO's lollipop?

...can too, after all (which they haven't been). I suspect that Doug Michels, who founded the original SCO and is now chief executive of... Read more

15 May, 2003 by Matt Loney

Hey, desktop Linux fans: Buy a Mac!

...it best. Heck, I was even married to a Unix person, and Doug Michels, a Unix pioneer, is one of my best friends. But it... Read more

1 March, 2002 by David Coursey

SCO slashes its work force by 19 percent

...s recent performance in our server software and professional services divisions," said Doug Michels, CEO of SCO. "Moreover, we have worked closely with Caldera to... Read more

8 September, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley

SCO customers need not fear, says Caldera chief

...and installed customer base. Love, along with SCO president and chief executive Doug Michels, opened Forum 2000 (formerly SCO Forum) in Santa Cruz this week... Read more

22 August, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

New Moon on Monday for Tarantella

...stock plus a guaranteed amount in royalties over the next two years. Doug Michels, Tarantella CEO, told silicon.com: "The bottom line is that Tarantella... Read more

2 June, 2003 by Tony Hallett

Citrix ditches ASP tag

...way, taking a number of the smaller pure-play ASPs with it. Doug Michels, CEO of Citrix rival Tarantella, is cynical about the way Citrix... Read more

14 June, 2001 by Joey Gardiner

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