PeopleSoft Prepares Inquisition For Oracle Execs
News PeopleSoft wants to interview half a dozen Oracle executives in connection with its California lawsuit against Oracle for alleged unfair business practices, according to papers filed with the Alameda County Superior Court.
[January 9, 2004, 14:40]
AOL: Old Media Eats New Media
News AOL Time Warner executives did not return requests for comment. AOL executives filled in the top ranks of the combined company, taking on positions such as chief financial officer. When AOL announced its intention to acquire Time Warner in January...
[December 7, 2001, 9:12]
Pfeiffer Lashes Out At Compaq Board
News Handsome Silicon Valley severance packages are worded so as to limit former top executives from criticising their old companies. He waved aside "quotes that came from dismissed Compaq executives" as part of a process he derided as replete with "a...
[April 22, 1999, 6:15]
Sun: Same Song, Second Verse?
News But the executives didn't persuade some outsiders who expect Schwartz eventually will have a different answer to the Wall Street cost-cutting pressure McNealy withstood for years. Two years ago, after Schwartz was promoted to Sun president, he got...
[April 26, 2006, 11:20]
Samsung Promotes Q1 UMPC Improvements
News In a press conference and reception at the Samsung Experience store at Manhattan's Time Warner Center, Samsung executives touted the new device's improved physical features and diverse range of functions, hoping it will be able to capture new...
[May 8, 2007, 10:18]
Salesforce Attacks SAP Over Delayed SaaS Rollout
News SAP executives at the Sapphire conference, however, were indignant that the company should be compared to other SaaS players. Company executives said the timescale was revised primarily to ensure SAP gets it right when it debuts its software-as-a...
[May 21, 2008, 9:46]
Microsoft And Nortel Launch Unified Comms Partnership
News The chief executives of both companies launched the joint operation, which they are calling the Innovative Communications Alliance, to sell and market such offerings at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon.
[January 17, 2007, 18:05]
Microsoft Memo: Linux Fight Backfiring
News Top Microsoft executives, including co-founder Bill Gates and chief executive Steve Ballmer, have long derided open-source software as being everything from a "cancer" to "Pac-Man-like. According to memo, the survey was conducted between July and...
[November 7, 2002, 9:33]
Trouble In HP's Post-merger Paradise
News The conflict between the two ways of doing things came to a post-merger head as HP executives retained their positions running the services group and Napier became HP's chief information officer. While HP's services group appears to have the upper...
[August 2, 2002, 8:51]
Oracle Offers Support To Itanium
News Mark Hurd and Paul Otellini, the chief executives of HP and Intel respectively, announced the partnership at the meeting, while Oracle's chief executive, Larry Ellison, made a video appearance. To emphasise the significance of the expanded...
[March 3, 2006, 9:00]
JBoss-Red Hat Marriage: The Sign Of Things To Come
News But even with the fast-growing company's promise, there are some potential pitfalls, said analysts and industry executives. Although they both seek to sell to high-level IT executives, Red Hat's software is generally used by Linux systems...
[April 11, 2006, 9:55]
Social Construction Of Knowledge And Authority In Business Communities And Organizations
White Papers Interviews were conducted with executives from twenty corporations regarding knowledge management needs. This paper used selected concepts from grounded theory, to analyze the interview reports as secondary sources.
[July 11, 2008, 1:20]
Aligning Relationships: Optimizing The Value Of Strategic Outsourcing
White Papers In an effort to crystallize what companies expect to gain from their out-sourcing relationships, IBM engaged Mercer Management Consulting to interview more than 300 senior IT and business executives in seven countries and seven industries.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Playboy Interview May Pose Problems For Google
News Despite great efforts on the part of Google executives to keep mum during the months after it filed, an interview granted before the official registration could be a temporary deal delay, they say. An interview with Google's co-founders in Playboy...
[August 13, 2004, 10:50]
Strengthen Software Security With Best Practices From Gary McGraw
White Papers IT security professionals, network administrators, IT executives, and help desk analysts will benefit from Dr. In this audio interview, Dr. Gary McGraw, author of Software Security: Building Security In, offers strategies and best practices for...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Gates: We'll Keep Google Honest
News But in an onstage interview with ad executives and talk show host Donny Deutsch, Gates conceded the company has made mistakes, including in some cases picking the wrong people to lead certain efforts.
[May 4, 2006, 8:55]
Sun Co-founder Returns To Fold
News It's pretty cool to see two pioneers reunite," said Robert Frances Group analyst Ed Broderick, referring to the two executives. Although executives remained mum about Kealia's products and how they'll fit in at Sun, Bechtolsheim shared his thoughts...
[February 18, 2004, 10:55]
Red Hat, Sun To Boost Desktop Linux
News Red Hat and Sun Microsystems are gearing up to sell Linux for desktop computers, the companies' chief executives said Tuesday. BEA executives said the company is fine-tuning its JVM to work on Red Hat Linux on Intel servers.
[August 14, 2002, 8:21]
Can Magneto Repel Microsoft's Mobile Rivals?
News A Microsoft representative declined to comment on the features or the timing of Magneto's release beyond what executives have said. In an April interview, Allchin said the result would be an array of new products, some of which he called "amazing".
[May 9, 2005, 19:00]
Bertelsmann: Making Music With Napster
News Top executives in its record label BMG Entertainment, including former chief executive Strauss Zelnick and chairman Michael Dornemann, have quit. But little is known about how it will look, or whether Bertelsmann will succeed in the daunting task...
[February 7, 2001, 13:57]

