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Dell climbs stack with new software group

Dell has created a dedicated software group and tapped John Swainson, former head of IT services specialist CA Technologies, to run it. The... Read more

3 February, 2012
Dell buys security specialist SonicWall

Dell buys security specialist SonicWall

...The acquisition — the second since Dell named former CA chief executive John Swainson head of a new software unit — gives the company complementary assets to... Read more

14 March, 2012 by Larry Dignan

CA confirms Swainson's appointment

Computer Associates has confirmed that John Swainson, formerly vice-president of worldwide software sales for IBM, is to be... Read more

23 November, 2004 by Dan Ilet

Rebuilding CA's bridges

John Swainson has taken on the challenge of his career. After working at IBM... Read more

23 February, 2005 by Martin LaMonica

CA completes new-look management team

...its security and systems-management businesses, the company said on Tuesday. John Swainson, the former IBM executive who became CA's CEO in February, is... Read more

5 April, 2005 by Martin LaMonica

Q&A: CA CEO John Swainson

...Resort and Convention Centre, silicon.com caught up with CA CEO John Swainson, presiding over his first conference, who told us the days of such... Read more

16 November, 2005 by Will Sturgeon

CA breathes new life into Unicenter

...Las Vegas on Sunday with a keynote speech from chief executive John Swainson, who joined the company a year ago. During the conference, CA executives... Read more

11 November, 2005 by Martin LaMonica

CA's Ingres sell-off met with scepticism

...will co-operate on product development, industry partnerships and marketing activities. John Swainson, the president and chief executive of Computer Associates, said this move is... Read more

9 November, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

CA brings more patents to the open source party

...and selling support services. A few months after former IBM executive John Swainson was named CA's chief executive in 2004, the company voiced its... Read more

8 September, 2005 by Martin LaMonica

CA leaps on patent bandwagon

...database used in large-scale business applications. CA chief executive officer John Swainson said earlier this week that the company will continue to explore ways... Read more

21 February, 2005 by Martin LaMonica

IBM buys apps management firm

...set of tools for building, running and managing business applications, said John Swainson, IBM's vice president of worldwide software sales. Swainson recently took on... Read more

29 July, 2004 by Martin LaMonica

IBM tools enter e-business market

...refresh the rest of IBM's WebSphere e-business software, said John Swainson, general manager of IBM's application and integration middleware division. Later this... Read more

25 September, 2002 by Wylie Wong

Salesforce.com makes more friends in the cloud

...Francisco this week, where BMC CEO Bob Beauchamp and CA CEO John Swainson both joined Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on stage for the announcement... Read more

20 November, 2009 by Tim Ferguson

CA: We're not the company we were five years ago

...company's annual customer conference. Speaking at the CA World event, John Swainson said CA has made significant changes - including implementing a new SAP-based... Read more

24 April, 2007 by Steve Ranger

CA hit by $342m share irregularities

...response to the news a report from analysts at Ovum suggested John Swainson, CEO of CA, "must surely be hoping this is the last 'surprise... Read more

2 August, 2006 by Will Sturgeon

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