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Ex-Siebel Exec to Lead PeopleSoft CRM
PeopleSoft last week announced that George Ahn, an ex-marketing executive at rival Siebel Systems, was named group vice president and general manager of its CRM business. Ahn replaces Joe Davis, who left PeopleSoft last month to be president and CEO of Coremetrics. Ahn comes to PeopleSoft from TIBCO Software, where he had been executive vice…
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CA Names Interim CEO
Computer Associates International Inc. made it official this morning, naming independent board member Kenneth Cron to the interim CEO spot vacated late last week by the demotion of former CEO and Chairman Sanjay Kumar. The move is part of a mini-shake-up in the midst of scandal-driven turmoil that has roiled the Islandia, N.Y., software maker…
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CA Resellers Weigh Impact of CEO Ousting
Many Computer Associates resellers, while praising the quality of products released during the four-year tenure of Sanjay Kumar as CEO, nevertheless say they believe the channel could benefit under a new watch. Alan Dubla, president of Phoenix-based ADT Computer Solutions, is one reseller who said he hopes that CA’s next CEO will be more oriented…
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Partners, Rivals Fall in Line with Sun’s J2EE 1.4
Sun Microsystems Inc. is sponsoring an event Monday to celebrate the adoption of J2EE 1.4, the latest version of Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition. Several partners—as well as competitors—joined Sun at the San Francisco event to announce compatibility with J2EE 1.4 or plans to support the specification, which became available last November. Five companies now…
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Earnings Give Solutions Providers a Lift
Solid quarterly earnings from multiple companies gave distributors and solutions providers a lift during the week ended April 23. Of our 30 index members, the week’s biggest advancers were Arrow Electronics Inc. (ARW, +7.76 percent), Agilysys Inc. (AGYS, +5.42 percent), DiamondCluster International Inc. (DTPI, +4.45 percent), Tech Data Corp. (TECD, +4.06 percent) and Avnet Inc.…
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Feds Making Plans for Security Clearinghouse
The federal government is developing plans for a secure network operations center for all security information flowing to and from the government. The security operations center would be separate from other such facilities at federal agencies and would not necessarily be concerned with monitoring the operations of production government networks. Instead, the SOC would be…
