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Farewell, Bill. Yo, Ballmer, now it's your turn!
Steve Ballmer may be the worst CEO among large tech companies - now that Kevin Rollins got booted from Dell and Sanjay Kumar of CA is in jail. Put him in a room with Steve Jobs of Apple, John Chambers of Cisco and Mark Hurd of HP and he'd look...
Tags: Google Inc., MSN, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Fiasco, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Smart Phones, Games, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Robin Harris
Blog posts 2008-01-29
Will Kumar refund? IBM eats own dog food. Interop 2006. EFF neutralized by DOJ secret weapon?
It's been close to six months since I turned off all of my instant messengers. Yahoo? Off. Skype? Off. MSN? Off. AIM? Off. Sometimes, when I need to get in touch with someone, I turn them on. But I unload them as soon as I'm...
Tags: Interop 2006
Blog posts 2006-05-02
CA's Kumar: Where's the bonus, baby?
What's nastier than cooking your company's books? Taking over $1 billion on "performance bonuses" based on the financial barbecue you've just held. That's what Sanjay Kumar and his gang did when they defrauded CA by inflating the company's revenues and then cashing in their bonuses based on those inflated numbers....
Tags: Computer Associates International Inc.
Blog posts 2006-04-24
IBMer John Swainson to head CA
Computer Associates is expected to name IBM global software sales head John Swainson as CEO, replacing former CEO Sanjay Kumar and interim CEO Ken Cron. Previously, Swainson, who joined IBM in 1978, ran the company's WebSphere and middleware software unit, which gives him a good background for the CA job. He...
Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., John Swainson, IBMer John Swainson
Blog posts 2004-11-22
CA cuts deal with DOJ...next up a new CEO
As foreshadowed in my interview with Computer Associates interim CEO Ken Cron, the company's season in hell is apparently over. News.com's  Martin LaMonica reported that the company reached an agreement with the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission for improperly booking $2.2 billion in revenue from 1998...
Tags: Computer Associates International Inc.
Blog posts 2004-09-22
CA ousts Kumar as chief executive
CA ousts Kumar as chief executiveRacism ??The board found a scapegoat. They never wanted an Indian running the company anyway.Not a racism!Why the heck looking for reason in "no-reason" area? Anyone feels too Indian and tries to accuse of wrong motives?The real motives of stepping down in this situations are:1....
Tags: Corporate governance, Computer Associates International Inc., racism, ISV
Discussion threads 2004-04-21
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