CA confirms Swainson's appointment
News Computer Associates has confirmed that John Swainson, formerly vice-president of worldwide software sales for IBM, is to be its new chief executive. I am very pleased that a person of John Swainson's stature has agreed to lead CA," said chairman...
[November 23, 2004, 12:45]
Rebuilding CA's bridges
News John Swainson has taken on the challenge of his career. After working at IBM for 26 years, last November Swainson was appointed president and CEO of Computer Associates, a 29-year-old company in need of an image makeover.
[February 23, 2005, 15:55]
CA sets up for product cull
News Computer Associates intends to 'de-emphasise' hundreds of its products and pick up the pace of acquisitions, said CEO John Swainson. Swainson, who came to CA last autumn and took over full CEO and president responsibility earlier this month, said...
[February 17, 2005, 11:05]
CA breathes new life into Unicenter
News The company is scheduled to kick off its CA World customer conference in Las Vegas on Sunday with a keynote speech from chief executive John Swainson, who joined the company a year ago. A common repository is becoming increasingly important for...
[November 11, 2005, 10:25]
IBM buys apps management firm
News The purchase of Cyanea, which represents the seventeenth company IBM software has bought since 2001, is consistent with IBM's plan to build out a broad set of tools for building, running and managing business applications, said John Swainson, IBM...
[July 29, 2004, 15:40]
IBM tools enter e-business market
News In the next six to nine months, the company will refresh the rest of IBM's WebSphere e-business software, said John Swainson, general manager of IBM's application and integration middleware division. The computing giant also hopes to extend beyond...
[September 25, 2002, 9:50]
CA leaps on patent bandwagon
News CA chief executive officer John Swainson said earlier this week that the company will continue to explore ways to build adoption for its products through open source projects. Computer Associates plans to submit a portion of its patent portfolio to...
[February 21, 2005, 8:30]
CA completes new-look management team
News John Swainson, the former IBM executive who became CA's CEO in February, is scheduled to present a revamped company organisation to employees through a memo and companywide Webcast. Swainson said that the organisational changes, some of which have...
[April 5, 2005, 16:20]
CA's Ingres sell-off met with scepticism
News John Swainson, the president and chief executive of Computer Associates, said this move is part of its strategy to focus on its core businesses of security and systems management. This partnership with Garnett & Helfrich represents a step toward...
[November 9, 2005, 9:10]
CA brings more patents to the open source party
News A few months after former IBM executive John Swainson was named CA's chief executive in 2004, the company voiced its intention to donate some of its patents to help promote open source development. Computer Associates (CA) will give open source...
[September 8, 2005, 8:55]
