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Microsoft hires IBM's chief architect
News Microsoft has poached IBM's chief architect as part of a recruitment drive to bring more web expertise into the company. Ferguson is also known to have a black belt in Kenpo karate, which he earned whilst chief architect at IBM.
[January 16, 2007, 16:23]
IBM names new Unix server chief
News Rahmani, who was hand-picked to work by chief executive Lou Gerstner's side in 1996, takes over the division as Sun and HP are being punished by a declining economy and as IBM has a fresh new Unix server product line.
[October 24, 2001, 15:45]
AMD picks IBM veteran as manufacturing chief
News A substantial number of AMD's top executives came to the company from IBM (such as CTO Phil Hester) or Motorola (chief executive Hector Ruiz). AMD has appointed IBM veteran Douglas Grose as head of manufacturing, one of the company's most crucial...
[February 5, 2007, 8:37]
IBM chief takes $20m home
Talkback It's no comfort to the thousands of employees who have had their pensions significantly reduced so that Palmisano can exceed his forecasts.
[March 10, 2006, 19:50]
Gerstner tells industry to take responsibility
News On Monday, IBM chief executive, Lou Gerstner, exhorted his fellow tech leaders to "step up" and address the societal impact of high-tech advances. The IBM chief's call to action focused on three issues -- privacy, security and digital trade policy.
[March 7, 2000, 12:20]
The Day Ahead: Should IBM exit the PC biz?
News In his fireside chat with Wall Street, IBM chief Lou Gerstner said there were few things deemed unthinkable at Big Blue. The IBM chief also shot down companies' silly love affair with "tracking stocks.
[May 10, 2000, 12:29]
IBM angles for bigger chunk of corporate spend
News IBM's chief financial officer, John Joyce, said that Big Blue has positioned itself to take advantage of a "dramatic and significant shift" in the information technology industry. While not commenting specifically on its view on corporate...
[December 5, 2003, 9:10]
Palmisano sheds light on IBM's path
News IBM chief executive Sam Palmisano told Wall Street analysts that the company needs to cut costs and become more efficient, but declined to discuss expected job cuts. We know it," Palmisano, who became IBM's chief executive in March, told analysts...
[May 17, 2002, 7:32]
IBM names Palmisano as new chief executive
News Sam Palmisano will become IBM's chief executive 1 March, succeeding Lou Gerstner, the company said on Tuesday. Palmisano, currently IBM's president and chief operating officer, has been widely expected to take over for Gerstner, who has been...
[January 30, 2002, 8:59]
Palmisano named as IBM chairman
News IBM announced on Tuesday that its chief executive, Sam Palmisano, has been elected chairman, setting the stage for longtime chairman Lou Gerstner to bid adieu at the end of the year. The move had been expected, after IBM's announcement earlier this...
[October 30, 2002, 10:42]
Palmisano: Big Blue means business
News IBM's president and chief operating officer -- and the heir apparent to chief executive Lou Gerstner -- is one of IBM's biggest Linux advocates, placing the alternative flavour of the Unix operating system near the centre of a broad plan to catch...
[December 18, 2000, 9:02]
Reinventing IBM: The evolution of on-demand
News Samuel Palmisano, on the job as chief executive for less than a year at the time, was intent on proving that IBM was anything but a relic. I see a focus and a drive there that is unprecedented, in my mind, in IBM history, and a vision that is...
[June 15, 2004, 11:10]
ISS will 'let loose the dogs of war'
News IBM's $1.3bn (£688m) purchase of security specialists Internet Security Systems (ISS) will create a formidable combination that should get other security vendors seriously worried, the chief executive of ISS believes.
[August 24, 2006, 17:20]
Intel chief: Sun was 'shopping around' for buyer
News Sun had been looking for a company to buy it for some time before IBM took an interest, according to Intel chief executive Paul Otellini. The Intel chief had bad news for Sun Sparc and Solaris users, when he predicted that "the stuff on Solaris and...
[March 26, 2009, 12:31]
IBM's future lies in grids, says new chief exec
News Making his first major public appearance since being appointed IBM's chief executive-to-be, Palmisano outlined his vision for the future of technology at the company's PartnerWorld 2002 conference in San Francisco.
[February 21, 2002, 11:30]
IBM hits mark in gloomy week for techs
News IBM chief executive Lou Gerstner noted some of the quarter's bright spots. During a Wednesday afternoon conference call with Wall Street analysts, IBM chief financial officer John Joyce emphasised that the company is less reliant on mainframes than...
[April 19, 2001, 11:35]
IBM delivers, comfortable with 2001 estimates
News On a conference call with analysts, chief financial officer John Joyce admitted he didn't have much visibility into 2001, but said IBM was comfortable with analyst estimates for the year. We had a very solid fourth quarter which, in many respects...
[January 19, 2001, 8:27]
IBM boss: Expect steady growth
News IBM shares gained ground in after-hours trading on Thursday, following the company's annual analyst meeting, during which, chief executive, Louis Gerstner, reiterated previous sales and earnings guidance and evangelized the potential and...
[May 11, 2001, 14:23]
Pinpointing HP's centre of gravity
News Certainly, it's the job of the chief executives to position the company in a favourable light, in black and white if possible: HP good, IBM bad, Dell a low-end packager and distributor that doesn't invest in innovation.
[October 7, 2003, 15:00]
Apple snaps up top IBM chip and blade-server exec
News Mark Papermaster, until recently IBM's vice president of microprocessor technology development, plans in to join Apple in early November in a position that will see him working closely with Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, in what IBM believes is...
[October 31, 2008, 7:25]
