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RSS space execsSymantec: 'No end in sight for acquisitions'
News Salem said Symantec CEO John Thompson (a silicon.com Agenda Setter) actively fosters a culture within the company whereby senior execs are always on the lookout for the next buyout target. At the moment we're taking an agnostic approach and will... [31 Oct 2005]
SME Philes: Who do you trust?
Comment They scored top amongst IT execs (65.4 per cent trust them) but were sixth (of 12) in the business managers' responses with just 41.2 per cent. The big winners were the 'traditional' big iron vendors, HP and IBM.per cent of business managers... [22 Feb 2005]
Cyber-terror plan panned as "barmy"
News According to the company, he will address 60 attendees, including senior execs from the banking and insurance sectors as well as representatives from the academic, diplomatic, government and intelligence fields. [09 Feb 2005]
CEOs bank on growth and offshoring
News But many will be prepared to make unpopular decisions to achieve that growth, with 57 per cent of global execs citing offshoring as a major factor. However, execs also expressed concern about over-reliance on the relatively unknown quantity that is... [04 Feb 2005]
Re:Viewing 2004: Software and open source
News Meant to explain how Windows can work out cheaper than the open source OS, the festivities included Microsoft execs implying Linux supporters are waging a "jihad" against Redmond. The year also saw Novell bring fresh anti-competitive claims in the... [21 Dec 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.11.04
Round-Up Or, more likely, it sounds like the 'let's quantify data as books' metaphor was 'The Idea' that emerged from a brain dump by some marketing execs and not a result of a complex algorithm calculated by techies. [17 Dec 2004]
CIO - tech, exec or waste of space?
News Read silicon.com on Monday for the results of our latest CIO Jury in which we ask our IT execs whether it is in fact easier to teach a businessman about the technology instead of the other way around. [01 Oct 2004]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Hu Jintao
Comment The wireless space, too, has found China ready to not follow the herd and push for non-Western - the country's readying its own flavour of 3G and caused Intel execs a few sleepless nights when it demanded all Wi-Fi equipment in the country comply... [13 Sep 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.05.04
Round-Up It used to be the case that Vegas casinos were famed for not having any marked exits.now all the start-up execs chatting at the bar all seem to have come with their own "exit strategy" already mapped out as talk turns from poker to broker and from... [28 May 2004]
Leader: Heads will roll
Leader Of course Kumar need not be too disheartened - he now shares a job title with Bill Gates who was one of the first of the current batch of high-tech execs to split the role of chairman and CEO. Then there is Carly Fiorina at HP and Sam Palmisano at... [04 May 2004]
PeopleSoft-JD Edwards deal - the shape of things to come
Comment A deal between PeopleSoft and JD Edwards is closer to a marriage of equals than the above scenario but execs in the same mould as Craig Conway and his team at PeopleSoft across the industry will be wanting to make sure they are never seen as one... [02 Jun 2003]
Dell - the company that wants it all
Comment And that elsewhere is in being an enterprise IT provider, in selling - directly, it says - higher-margin servers, storage, networking equipment and even services.silicon.com was at the Dell HQ in Round Rock, Texas, last week, where our reporter... [29 Jan 2003]
How big is your inbox?
News The bigger the better seems to be the modern mantra, according to Dr Monica Seeley, a leading IT coach to senior execs. The more emails execs receive, the more likely it is they go unread. Forget the executive parking space or the big corner office... [24 Jul 2002]
HP and Compaq: aiming for the stars
Comment And let's not forget that there are a few words about the several other senior execs who have left the company since Pfeiffer's departure. The first space shuttle to be commanded by a woman was due to take off early this morning, while on Monday... [20 Jul 1999]
