Why re CA ll the Past?
November 16th, 2005 by Adam Cuothe
Lots of notes flying about CA from its Las Vegas event this week. The company is tossing off some visible baggage (MultiGen), and hinting at more to come. It already initiated what it calls an “experiment” pawning off Ingres as open source. It’s fashionable lately, when a company can’t figure out what else to do with a product its run into the ground, it crosses its (f)ingres and hopes for the open source best.
CA wants to put some focus back in its enterprise services management products. It’s introducing a slew of new solutions for dashboards, things to help service delivery, and make IT “magical” to the enterprise, with very very litle downtime. Hocus pocusy stuff, they think.
CEO John Swainson flips his flippers while plunging into the icy waters of customerland. He commented on CA’s nastyman past but wants all to know, employees (those that weren’t laid off in the Spring) have swapped their wifebeater uniforms for something friendlier. Granted, they can’t afford much more than a t-shirt, what with the expensive new excutives the company was forced to indulge, who must consider naming rights for major sporting stadiums–maybe branding things Unicenter Arena, with a CA teletubby-esque mascot (teletubbies seem friendly). No wait, execs, Swainson believes he’d be called “sleazy” for a move like that, come up with something else.
In Mark Harrington’s Newsday article, we get a Swainson quote:
Swainson said he’s been rewarded by a “buzz” that’s returning to the company and “seeing the excitement of the people as they realize we’re coming out of it.”
About time, don’t you hate coming off a good high?
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