Top Linux exec departs from Novell
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Novell is mum on the exit of Chris Stone, a key leader in the company's transformation to Linux vendor.
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(InfoWorld) - Novell Inc.'s former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jack Messman, who was ousted from those positions in June, has quit the company's board of directors a month and a half earlier than had been previously announced. Messman quit Novell's board Monday, a company spokesman confirmed Thursday. In June, Novell said that Messman would remain on its board until Oct. 31. Novell made a brief 8-K filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tuesday stating that Messman told the board Sept. 8 that he would resign from the board effective Sept. 11. "This was just a personal decision by Jack," the Novell spokesman wrote in an e-mail. "If there had been any substantive disagreement with the board leading to his resignation, we would have had to state that in the SEC filing." Messman, 66, wasÂ booted out of his leadership roles at Novell by his fellow board members in a move they characterized as a way to better position the company to boost its growth. He became Novell CEO when the vendor acquired the consulting company he headed up, Cambridge Technology Partners, in 2001. Ron Hovsepian, Novell's president and chief operating officer, added the CEO title to his existing positions, while Thomas Plaskett, a Novell director, became chairman. Novell executives in June stressed that the departures of Messman along with Joseph Tibbetts, the company's chief financial officer, weren't driven by accounting issues or any other improprieties. Late last month,Â Novell revealed that it had embarked upon a voluntary internal review to investigate how the company granted stock options to employees in recent years. Novell also cautioned that its third-quarter fiscal 2006 results should be considered preliminary financials until the company concludes the review in case the findings indicate Novell needs to restate its earnings. On Monday, Novell made a filing to the SEC indicating that it does expect to be late in filing its third-quarter 10-K in the light of the ongoing stock options review. "Based on preliminary findings, the audit committee of Novell's board of directors engaged independent outside legal counsel to conduct the review," Novell said in the filing. Novell added that it's not in a position to predict when the review will be completed. Â
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A Microsoft executive who helped develop the company'sÂ new Zune music playerÂ and other products is leaving the company, Microsoft said Wednesday.
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Ziff Davis - The company says SuSE Linux Professional will become more of a community desktop, while its upcoming Novell Linux Desktop will target business users.
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It&#39;s out with the new and in with the oldâat least at PeopleSoft, Pleasanton, Calif. Just two weeks after the ouster of CEO Craig Conway, Ram Gupta, PeopleSoft executive vice president of product and technology, has also left the building.
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Executive holding three top slots resigns from ailing disk drive maker.
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Linux and identity management will be Novell&#39;s biggest strengths, according to its chief executive Jack Messman. Messman told delegates at this year&#39;s Novell Brainshare Europe event in Barcelona that the company
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Vince Broady, a senior vice president in Yahoo's media group, is the latest executive to leave the company as his duties are scaled back.
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The former chairman and CEO of Novell Inc., Jack Messman, has quit the company's board of directors a month and a half ahead of schedule.
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Blog: For the Linux consortium's top tech spot, it's out with Sun Microsystems' Ian Murdock and in with Novell's Markus Rex.
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At least one high-level Sun exec is departing after a shake-up affecting the Sun Grid.
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NOVEMBER 05, 2004  - After helping Novell Inc. reinvigorate itself last year through the endorsement of Linux and the acquisition of vendor SUSE Linux AG, Vice Chairman Chris Stone has left the company.
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Solution providers last week said they do not expect the sudden departure of Novell vice chairman Chris Stone, who engineered the company&#39;s aggressive Linux push, to slow its Linux initiative.
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Rumours of Singer's swansong Larry Singer, senior vice president and strategic insight officer at Sun, is said to be stepping down from Sun's much-hyped Sun Grid project. It is not yet clear if he is leaving the company entirely.â¦
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The Microsoft Corp.  executive  in charge of closing the gap on Web search leader Google Inc   is leaving the company, a source familiar with the  situation said on Wednesday.
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Former chief financial officer steps down from company's board amid an investigation into stock option grants.
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A PeopleSoft executive who oversaw the company&#39;s products and its integration with JD Edwards departed from the company this week, a company representative confirmed Friday.