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Fiorina's fuzzy vision

February 9, 2005 CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos says departing Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina had a vision. It just changed every few months. TAGS: Carly Fiorina, PC company, East Coast, merger, vision, acquisition, Compaq Computer Corp., HP, IBM Corp., AT&T Corp., CEO, Dell, PC

CA's CEO-elect mixes it up

January 24, 2005 In first management move, John Swainson creates autonomous product groups, shuffles top executives, eyes more acquisitions. TAGS: Computer Associates International Inc., business unit, acquisition, product development, executive vice president, structure, IBM Corp., CEO

Hurd offers just a glimpse of HP strategy

September 7, 2005 At a meeting with investors in New York, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd presented a broad overview of HP's mission. TAGS: Mark Hurd, restructuring, R&D, investor, imaging, HP, CEO, acquisition, printing, IBM Corp., Dell, PC

McNealy touts 'excitement' of backup tape

June 9, 2005 Sun CEO defends StorageTek acquisition and adds open source to his usual hit list of Microsoft and IBM. TAGS: StorageTek, storage management, Sun Microsystems Inc., Glasgow, grid computing, Scotland, thin client, excitement, Scott McNealy, Sun Solaris, open source, CEO, acquisition, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., backup

BEA Systems acquires Fuego

March 1, 2006 Company's latest buy to expand BEA's presence in service-oriented architecture software. TAGS: BEA AquaLogic, Plumtree Software, BEA Systems Inc., BPM, business process, SOA, TIBCO Software Inc., acquisition, IBM Corp., CEO

MySQL fills Oracle-consumed hole in database

April 7, 2006 Open-source database company, with its own storage engine in the works, renews contract with Oracle around InnoDB. TAGS: Innobase Oy, Innobase InnoDB, MySQL, Oracle Corp., Stephen O'Grady, database company, database, acquisition, open source, CEO, IBM Corp.

Praise, skepticism greet Oracle-Siebel merger

September 12, 2005 Reaction to Oracle's megamerger with Siebel Systems is mixed, but it won't be as complex as Oracle's purchase of PeopleSoft. TAGS: Siebel Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc., merger, Mercury Interactive Corp., SAP AG, Larry Ellison, IBM DB2, middleware, AMR Research, CRM, IBM Corp., acquisition, database, CEO, Microsoft Corp.

Red Hat and JBoss: No turning back for open source

April 10, 2006 Red Hat's $350 million purchase of JBoss speeds up the collision between the once closed-off open-source world and entrenched software heavyweights. TAGS: JBoss, Red Hat Inc., ecosystem, BEA Systems Inc., open source, acquisition, open-source company, middleware, open-source software, Novell Inc., Oracle Corp., Linux, CEO, IBM Corp., Java

Oracle posts higher profit on license sales

June 29, 2005 Business software giant posts better-than-expected earnings bolstered in part by applications license revenue. TAGS: Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, PeopleSoft Inc., earnings, SAP AG, net income, enterprise application, middleware, North America, database, acquisition, IBM Corp., CEO

HP revels in Fiorina's vision, Hurd's discipline

August 28, 2006 Company investors and employees have two leaders to thank for HP's resurgence this year, as the Compaq bet finally starts to pay off. TAGS: Carly Fiorina, Illuminata Inc., profit, Mark Hurd, HP, Compaq Computer Corp., Wall Street, merger, supplier, vision, acquisition, server, AMD, printer, IBM Corp., CEO
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