Oracle: Life after Ray Lane
News Oracle's new number two man, executive vice president Gary Bloom, was out to prove to the Oracle OpenWorld user conference crowd that there is, indeed. A far cry from ever-fashionable Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison, Bloom, bedecked in an...
[October 3, 2000, 9:34]
Veritas' earnings slip below target
News In a statement, Veritas chief executive Gary Bloom said that the earnings shortfall is due to poor sales to corporations in the United States. At the end of the June quarter, our anticipated order flow weakened, contributing to lower-than-expected...
[July 6, 2004, 14:45]
Symantec and Veritas woo shaky investors
News The chief executives -- Symantec's John Thompson and Veritas' Gary Bloom -- said their customers, partners and an assortment of hardware vendors have responded to the merger in a "positive fashion", but investors have yet to fall in line.
[January 6, 2005, 8:20]
Sydney and London call centres take calls for Veritas
News In the aftermath of what has been described as the worst terrorist attack in history -- in which both towers of New York's World Trade Center were razed by hijacked commercial planes -- chief executive Gary Bloom said all the company's east coast...
[September 12, 2001, 12:01]
The Day Ahead: Can Oracle prove its critics wrong?
News There are those who suggest recent departures of key executives like Ray Lane and Gary Bloom spell trouble for the database software giant. Back in November when then-executive vice president Bloom left to take the chief executive post at Veritas...
[December 14, 2000, 11:49]
Oracle stock jumps amid strong sales outlook
News Merrill Lynch analyst Chris Shilakes said in a note to clients that he met with Oracle Chief Financial Officer Jeff Henley and Executive Vice President Gary Bloom on Friday and left the meetings "with a reaffirmed confidence that Oracle is very...
[November 2, 1999, 10:05]
Veritas expands Linux software line
News We view Linux as a strategic platform with immense growth opportunity," Veritas chief eecutive Gary Bloom said in a statement. Storage and data protection software maker Veritas has expanded its Linux software line, releasing new products and...
[July 30, 2002, 8:50]
Oracle steps up Internet caching presence
News In an earlier presentation, Oracle vice president Gary Bloom said: "We think we're at the early stages of margin improvement. At an analyst meeting Tuesday, CEO Larry Ellison said Oracle will enter the fast-growing market for caching Internet pages.
[April 5, 2000, 11:28]
Veritas helps firms track data
News With our new Data Lifecycle Manager software, record retention and retrieval now extends across the entire enterprise, from the desktop to the data centre to the vault," Veritas chief executive Gary Bloom said in a statement.
[November 4, 2003, 12:25]
Veritas snaps up two software firms
News Veritas chief executive Gary Bloom said the Precise acquisition will allow Veritas to offer an end-to-end solution for problems customers encounter -- ranging from hardware and software failures to performance issues.
[December 20, 2002, 8:19]
Oracle loses two execs
News Oracle president Ray Lane left in June 2000 to join powerful Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and executive vice president Gary Bloom resigned in November 2000 to become chief executive of Veritas Software.
[July 17, 2003, 8:52]
Ellison steps down from chairman role
News Oracle has been operating without a clear heir apparent to Ellison since Ray Lane and Gary Bloom left the company in 2000. Oracle announced on Monday that Jeff Henley will become chairman of the database company and step down from his role as chief...
[January 13, 2004, 16:25]
The Day Ahead: Is too much of Oracle's Ellison a bad thing?
News Ellison created an executive team -- executive vice president of operations Gary Bloom, Henley and executive vice president Safra Catz -- to help manage Oracle's day-to-day affairs. Wall Street sure seems to think so.
[July 6, 2000, 13:55]
Symantec buys Veritas
News We looked at how important security is to customers and how important information availability is to customers and they are both in the sweet spot for CIOs," Bloom said. Bloom, Veritas' chief executive, will become vice-chairman and president.
[December 17, 2004, 9:45]
Veritas buys UK firm
News With the addition of KVS, we can deliver customers the market-leading software for storing, managing, backing up and archiving all their information," Gary Bloom, Veritas' chief executive, said in a statement.
[August 31, 2004, 16:45]
Veritas blooms during expansion
News Following a string of acquisitions and new products, Bloom is in the midst of retooling the backup and recovery software maker into a supplier of technology for corporate data centres. In part, Bloom's expansion plans are made necessary by the fact...
[May 12, 2003, 16:13]
