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Q&A: CA CEO John Swainson
Comment I'm sure you'd rather focus on the future but do you think you'll ever be able to move away entirely from talk of hostile takeovers, and latterly the SEC investigation, which have dogged CA over the past four or five years? [16 Nov 2005]
The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft, Citrix, CA and Sterling
Comment CA's Sterling opportunity ** The combination of the product lines is claimed by CA to make the company the "largest" supplier of storage management technology. Is CA really in a position... [20 Feb 2000]
Turnaround time for sluggish CA?
Comment For anyone connected to Computer Associates (CA) - and that includes its many shareholders - the last 12 months must have felt like a rollercoaster ride. CA shares have been hovering around $33 over the... [03 Nov 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: web services reality, strong CA and big iron AMD
Comment With $394m in deferred subscription revenues for the second quarter, an increase of 14 per cent year on year, CA is now sitting on a future subscription revenue stream of $3.3bn. Best of all, subscription revenues now... [28 Oct 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Crunch time for three giants: Cisco, Andersen and CA
Comment CA's re-jig* Bad results have been followed by reorganisation and CA is spinning off two of its units as separate companies. CA plans to float its application service provider (ASP)... [14 Aug 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: CNET money troubles, IT board strategies and CA's productivity
Comment CA bites back Last weekend an article appeared in the New York Times that questioned CA's financial and technical performance. Now CA has come back with a long and detailed response. The... [08 May 2001]
Inside CA: FactFile
Comment CA currently boasts a range of 1,200 products across its six business units: Advantage (database management and application development), Allfusion (application life cycle management), Brightstore (storage and back-up),... [25 Jul 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Going private, nano-disks and CA's new flexibility
Comment CA - your flexible friend* CA describes FlexSelect as providing a method of licensing software that accurately reflects the way a customer's business operates and that allows users to map software costs... [31 Jan 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: EMC's top spot scrutinised, UK Even-More-Online, revenge of the helpdeskers
Comment EMC's name cropped up among the glitz and glamour of CA World last week. Over a period of time, it has been trying to promote the idea that it has a software solution that could rival those of the big players -... [16 Jul 2001]
Leader: Consolidate, consolidate, consolidate
Leader Further consolidation took place in the security industry today with news that CA has bought Netegrity (of lost laptop fame). While CA had previously ruled out any more acquisitions, it appeared security... [06 Oct 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: User groups name and shame, safe PDAs, and IBM's Linux gamble
Comment CA's appetite for acquisition has left only Tivoli Systems as a main competitor, with perhaps HP as a reasonable alternative in many cases too. Much worse from CA's point of view is that users also voted... [18 Jun 2001]
Leader: Unjust extradition laws must be amended
Leader To rub salt in the latter's wound CA may also now sue Kumar for his legal expenses. High-profile sentences include 25 years for former WorldCom boss Bernie Ebbersm, 24 years for former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling and 12... [22 Nov 2006]
The Bloor Perspective: Back-up fracas, Palm and Sony, and traffic measurement
Comment Two days later, on 22 June, Veritas sent out a release that said that it could read ARCserve 6.x tapes and offer a migration path for CA customers who want to move to its Backup Exec product. As a major competitor of... [03 Jul 2000]
Leader: China bound
Leader Last week CA said it wants to at least triple the revenue it is generating in China over the next four years. But this is easier said than done - a point not lost on CA CEO John Swainson, who recently... [05 Dec 2005]
AC Milan: The high-tech giants of European football
Comment That is where CA came in, with a pitch based around the company's Cleverpath data analysis and business intelligence software which could reduce player 'downtime' within the AC Milan squad by predicting likelihood of... [27 Jan 2004]
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