IBM Happenings: November 2005
The month of November was another incredibly busy month for IBM, with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and corporate initiatives including one help find a cure for cancer. There have eight acquisitions year-to-date, thirty-five in the past five years, and forty-eight in the past ten years. The announcements made by the […]
Sarbox-2
Joseph Nocera wrote a column in the morning’s New York Times called "For All Its Cost, Sarbanes Is Working". A lot of the story was subjective but there was an interesting quote from John J. Mahoney, the chief financial officer at Staples where they have spent $7-10 million instituting "Sarbox". According to the story, Mr. […]
A Chat With The SAC
In 1980, while serving as branch manager for IBM in Philadelphia, I had the occasion to visit a senior executive at one of our customers — The Campbell Soup Company in Camden, New Jersey. I don’t remember who I met with or what we talked about but I will never forget the executive’s secretary who […]
Sarbox – A Silver Lining?
Just about everybody I know in the business world thinks the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation of 20002 (referred to as Sarbox) is really bad — high cost and de-focusing of management. There is certainly a basis for a less than rosy view of Sarbox — the act contains 68 sections and is 66 pages in length. The […]
Webcast From Vienna
The Internet Service Providers of Austria have produced a webcast of their Internet Summit in Vienna which I attended the day before Thanksgiving. The video and other related links are below … Your browser does not play HTML5 video. Try downloading the video file instead here.