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A Year Ago: Pfeiffer out as Compaq CEO
News In a stunning fall from the top of the personal computer industry, Compaq Computer Corp.said Sunday that CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer has resigned. But Pfeiffer, who had headed Compaq's European operations, rallied the company into its current position as...
[April 18, 2000, 7:00]
Pfeiffer replacement an outsider?
News Pfeiffer resigned Sunday following warnings of lower than expected profits. Given its upbeat mood about it being a good time to make changes, Williams would be surprised if the board appointed someone from within its own ranks to replace Pfeiffer.
[April 20, 1999, 9:36]
Pfeiffer lashes out at Compaq board
News A sober, buttoned-down executive, Pfeiffer is not known for making public displays of emotion. Pfeiffer said that "lots of people" have since told him he had done "a great job" during his eight-year tenure at the computer maker.
[April 22, 1999, 6:15]
A Year Ago: Compaq's Pfeiffer hints at changes to come
News Compaq chairman and CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer gave the first hint this morning that the addition of Digital to his company's portfolio will mean a reduction in combined headcount. Pfeiffer, in London for the announcement of new notebook, desktop and...
[January 26, 1999, 6:37]
CeBIT 98: Compaq's Pfeiffer to hype SME services
News President and CEO Pfeiffer will lead a press conference on Thursday with senior VP and general manager for Europe Andreas Barth where the company plans to talk up a new services model for small and medium-sized businesses.
[March 16, 1998, 17:28]
Compaq's Pfeiffer hints at changes to come
News Pfeiffer, in London for the announcement of new notebook, desktop and server PCs, said that he expects the Digital purchase to gain shareholder and regulatory body approval in April or May, but warned that the new Digital will have to do things...
[January 27, 1998, 14:07]
A Year Ago: Compaq's Pfeiffer to hype SME services
News Compaq is planning to put its PC sales blues behind it when chief Eckhard Pfeiffer announces a stream of products and services at the CeBIT show in Hanover this week. President and CEO Pfeiffer will lead a press conference on Thursday with senior...
[March 17, 1999, 6:56]
Pfeiffer out as Compaq CEO
News But Pfeiffer, who had headed Compaq's European operations, rallied the company into its current position as the number one PC maker, which had seemed an outlandish goal when he first stated it in the mid-1990s.
[April 19, 1999, 8:12]
Corner-shop Software Cornerstones
Blog Somewhere around a decade ago when Compaq’s arguably most-revered CEO Mr Eckhard Pfeiffer left his tenure at the helm of that particular ship, I joined him and left my role in the Middle East where I worked for his publicity people.
[January 9, 2009, 0:28]
Five years ago: Compaq will grow to $40bn says Pfieffer
News Compaq president and chief executive Eckhard Pfeiffer today told a 150-strong European audience in London that he plans to build a $40bn computer company. However, Pfeiffer said he was aware of the dangers of splitting down too many lines.
[February 12, 2002, 6:31]
Leader: Compaq, Intel and a chip named Alpha...
News At least since Eckhard Pfeiffer took over the reins, Compaq has been a very worldly company that deals with the bottom line first, second and last. Eckhard Pfeiffer is perhaps the only CEO to have openly spoken out against the chip giant in the past.
[August 28, 1998, 6:35]
US Report: Compaq aims at Dell
News Pfeiffer said Compaq plans to become a leader in direct sales. While the direct sales got the attention Wednesday, Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer was sure to emphasise that Compaq is not cutting out resellers.
[November 12, 1998, 10:03]
Dell slams Compaq
News Rose is the third top level executive to leave the company since the departure of CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer and CFO Earl Mason in April. Compaq also announced that it was appointing Michael Capellas interim chief operating officer to work with the three...
[June 4, 1999, 11:34]
New York - PC Expo: Compaq to serve small biz
News I foresee a day when enterprise application will work almost as plug and play models," Pfeiffer said. In discussing how the merger will affect the rest of Compaq's business, Pfeiffer echoed many of the themes he addressed at the company's press...
[June 17, 1998, 9:10]
Firefox gets multimedia plugin
News Project leader Dr Silvia Pfeiffer told ZDNet UK sister site ZDNet Australia on Friday morning that the reason the organisation chose Firefox as a development platform over Internet Explorer (IE) was the fact that Firefox’s plug-in architecture was...
[February 11, 2005, 8:40]
Compaq woes to continue in Q2
News Since the Pfeiffer and Mason departures, Compaq has continually had to reshuffle its management as several key employees left the company. The company ousted then-CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer and financial chief Earl Mason in April.
[June 17, 1999, 13:57]
Merger caps short, turbulent Compaq history
News The real story with Compaq was not Digital--it was with Pfeiffer," IDC analyst Roger Kay said. After some finger pointing, chief executive Eckhard Pfeiffer was ousted April 18, 1999, just one day after Compaq's Innovate99 customer conference, which...
[September 5, 2001, 12:55]
The future of publishing technology
News Andreas Pfeiffer is an industry analyst and editor in chief of the Pfeiffer Report on Emerging Trends and Technologies. While most trade-show keynote sessions tend to depict the latest technological advances in glorious colour and snappy PowerPoint...
[August 31, 2000, 8:39]
Five years ago: Compaq boss confirms direct sales move
News We will do for the network what we did for the PC in the 1980s," Pfeiffer said. Pfeiffer confirmed its long-rumoured intention to build PCs to order and sell direct in a copycat move that lays down the gauntlet to its Texan neighbour perennial...
[April 11, 2002, 7:01]
Compaq appoints CEO for Internet future
News Ironically, it was his predecessor Pfeiffer who actually laid the foundations for the company's restructure towards an ebusiness model. Capellas, who joined Compaq in June as COO from Oracle, received a glowing appraisal from Compaq chairman Ben...
[July 23, 1999, 15:00]
