Industry Moves

Ah, Scandal at Boring Old Best Buy

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:45:00 EDT

Seems the reason Best Buy’s CEO Brian Dunn, 51, suddenly up and tendered his resignation Tuesday was because of a board investigation into some unidentified allegations of personal misconduct on his part, not from any altruistic desire to save the world’s foundering largest electronics retailer.

How Performance Shares Add Transparency to Executive Compensation

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:40:00 EDT

(DOYLESTOWN, PA) Senior executives who don’t know their restricted stock units from their non-qualified options no longer have to suffer alone. Charles “Chuck” Steege CFP this week launched the SFG Executive Compensation Forum to explore the growing complexity of how – and with what – executives are being compensated. “In addition to the tax consequences of their decisions and their comfort with risk,” Mr. Steege, Executive Financial Coach and President, SFG Wealth Planning Services, Inc., said recently, “Today’s executives must also be concerned with their firm’s appearance as a transparent, responsible corporation, when it comes to their compensation policies.”

Cloud Expo Keynoter Undertakes New Role as CIO of NRO

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:15:00 EST

Jill Tummler Singer has been appointed to serve as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), effective 1 January 2010. Ms. Singer previously served as the Deputy CIO (DCIO) at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and gave the keynote address at SYS-CON's 1st Government IT Congference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com). As NRO’s CIO, Ms. Singer will be responsible for ensuring the NRO Information and Information Technology Enterprise is provisioned in an effective and efficient manner. She will also be more engaged in external activities, to include serving on the Intelligence Community (IC) CIO council, fulfilling her duties as an Information Sharing Executive, and serving as the Privacy Officer. As NRO’s CIO, Ms. Singer will be responsible for ensuring the NRO Information and Information Technology Enterprise is provisioned in an effective and efficient manner. She will also be more engaged in external activities, to include serving on the Intelligence Community (IC) CIO council, fulfilling her duties as an Information Sharing Executive, and serving as the Privacy Officer.

The FTC Throws the Book at Intel

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:40:00 EST

The Federal Trade Commission Wednesday morning charged Intel with illegally using its dominant market position for the last decade to stifle competition and strengthen its monopoly. The US regulator claims Intel has waged a systematic campaign to shut out AMD’s rival processors by cutting off its access to the market. In the process, it says, consumers have been deprived of choice, potentially superior chips and lower prices. According to the FTC’s administrative complaint, Intel’s anticompetitive tactics were designed to put the brakes on superior competitive products that threatened its monopoly.

GROUP Business Software to Acquire Lotus911

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:00:00 EDT

With Lotus911, GROUP will cement its position as the leader in the Lotus market, delivering a comprehensive set of business solutions as well as a range of services from custom application development to implementation and integration. Both companies will benefit from the combination of GROUPLive’s offering, a cloud computing solution for IBM Lotus software, with Lotus911’s hosting expertise and capacity.

So Oracle Thinks It’s Buying MySQL, Huh

Fri, 15 May 2009 15:30:00 EDT

MySQL refuses to go gentle into Oracle’s uncertain arms. Monty Widenius, principal author of the original version of the open source database and a founder of the MySQL company that Sun bought last year for a billion dollars, is proposing to wrest control of the widgetry from Oracle.

Novell Plays Musical Chairs

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:30:00 EST

Novell has named Maarten Koster president of Novell Asia-Pacific and promoted its Northeast US general sales manager Troy Richardson president of Novell Americas. Richardson's predecessor Susan Heystee is now general manager for global strategic alliances, a newly created position, perhaps anticipating the Microsoft deal.

SOA: Focus Is On Approaches Not Technology

Fri, 26 May 2006 12:00:00 EDT

So what's hot these days in the world of SOA? Governance, registries, orchestration...? Nope. As folks looking to implement SOA seek that first killer project the emphasis is on what to do, not what you use, and that's exactly the right way to think. As SOA becomes more of a reality among the Global 2000, the focus on discipline as a concept will be as important as solutions, perhaps more important than many expect. Let me explain.

BEA, IBM, Oracle, SAP, IONA, Siebel and Sybase Announce "Service Component Architecture" Specification

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:30:00 EST

BEA, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Iona, Siebel and Sybase today announced their united support for a new specification for building and packaging applications called 'Service Component Architecture' or SCA ? characterized as 'a deployment descriptor on steroids' by those close to the spec.

Industry Moves: OMG's Kenneth Berk Promoted

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 09:00:00 EDT

The Object Management Group today announced that Kenneth Berk has been promoted to the position of Director of Business Development.