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News Attending his economic forum late yesterday, the finale of a two day conference, were representatives of 15 leaders of mainly blue-chip firms including Michael Dell of Dell Computers, Craig Barrett of Intel Corporation, John Chambers of Cisco... [05 Jan 2001]
CSSA boss says IT users need to a profile boost
News Although chiefs such as Microsoft's Bill Gates, IBM's Lou Gerstner, and Sun Microsystem's Scott McNealy, have been recent guests at Number Ten Downing Street, Higgins pointed out that the UK Prime Minister turns to the IT heads of companies such... [07 Dec 1999]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Sam Palmisano
Comment If Palmisano still lives in the shadow of his predecessor Lou Gerstner, the panel reasoned, he can be forgiven. As the countdown begins in earnest to silicon.com's fifth year of its exclusive Agenda Setters poll of tech's 50 most influential... [02 Sep 2004]
HP moves in for £14bn PwC consulting takeover
News IBM, under Lou Gerstner, has seen the benefits of just such approach and since Carly Fiorina took over at HP last year she has been looking to generate profits away from its core business. Hewlett-Packard is set to purchase the management... [11 Sep 2000]
IBM encounters accounting difficulties
News An IBM spokeswoman said the company had done nothing wrong, pointing to the fact that CEO Louis Gerstner had mentioned the transaction during the company's conference call to discuss fourth quarter results. [18 Feb 2002]
Oracle eclipses database players
News Oracle's Larry Ellison, IBM's Lou Gerstner and Microsoft's Bill Gates all feature in silicon.com's Agenda Setters 2001. Software giant Oracle has this year extended its lead as the world's premier supplier of databases, beating off stiff... [29 May 2001]
Linux speeds IBM servers
News IBM's Lou Gerstner features in silicon.com's Agenda Setters 2001. The company claims that the new servers, the p620 and p660, will be 30 to 40 per cent faster than its current range by using IBM's SOI (silicon on insulator) chips that allow higher... [23 Apr 2001]
Nortel - follower of fashion or astute survivor?
Comment Cisco, and more importantly, Chambers, is one of just four bellwethers of the industry, along with Intel's Barrett, Microsoft's Gates and IBM's Gerstner. The people behind the IT industry may be techie nerds who despise fashion, but make no mistake... [03 Oct 2001]
Penguin in a blue suit: Linux on the corporate mainframe
Comment It all began when the Microsoft-IBM love-hate relationship forgot the love side of the equation, prompting Lou Gerstner to take a look around for just about any way possible to hurt Mr Gates. Ninety-nine per cent of electronic transactions take... [17 May 2000]
IT giants rake in the cash
News Big Blue chief, Lou Gerstner, said the strong performance was mainly due to the firm's services and software businesses. The IT industry's two biggest players have reported strong quarterly results, with both recording year-on-year profit rises of... [20 Jul 1999]
Bill Gates and Microsoft command complete respect
News IBM's Lou Gerstner, Sony's Nobuyuki Idei and Intel's Andy Grove occupy fourth, fifth and sixth places respectively. It might be much-maligned by large parts of the IT community but Microsoft is one of the world's most-respected companies. [17 Dec 2001]
AT&T pays £5bn for IBM Global Network
News IBM chief, Lou Gerstner said the move will allow Big Blue to concentrate on providing ebusiness applications. IBM has sold its Global Network business to AT&T, in a $5bn cash deal. The two US giants will also swap outsourcing contracts worth a... [08 Dec 1998]
Re:Viewing 2002 - hardware
News He had quite an act to follow and so we compared Palmisano and Lou Gerstner head to head (http://www.silicon.com/a51703). Another tough 12 months for vendors but with more intrigue, arguments and technological advances than you might remember... [20 Dec 2002]
10 years and still Lord of the rings
Comment Even IBM, despite its problems in the early nineties, is now back on track with Louis Gerstner racking up nine years at the helm. Today marks the tenth year of Jorma Ollila's tenure as CEO of Nokia - one of the most successful European companies of... [16 Jan 2002]
Gent and Matthews have a Knight to remember
News Outgoing Reuters chief executive Peter Job has also been knighted and reclusive IBM chief executive Lou Gerstner also picked up an honorary Knighthood. Vodafone chief executive Chris Gent and serial entrepreneur Terry Matthews have both received... [18 Jun 2001]
