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10 questions for Gehry Technologies CFO Michael Lin

Name: Michael Lin

10 questions for Hortonworks CTO Eric Baldeschwieler

Name: Eric Baldeschwieler

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst weighs in on strategy, Oracle and growth

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst is coming up on his five-year anniversary at the helm, following his arrival in December 2007. Under Whitehurst's leadership, Red Hat's revenue has grown from US$523 million in its fiscal 2008 to more than $1.1 billion in its fiscal 2012, without deviating from its core strategy of open-source infrastructure software.

10 questions for The Children's Center CFO Michael Miligan

Name: Michael Milligan

10 questions for Bit9 CTO Harry Sverdlove

Name: Harry Sverdlove

10 questions for Cormant CFO Catherine Goodison

Name: Catherine Goodison

10 questions for Imperva CTO Amichai Shulman

Name: Amichai Shulman

Steve Jobs interview: One-on-one in 1995

In April of 1995, Steve Jobs, then head of NeXT Computer, was interviewed as part of the Computerworld Honors Program Oral History project. The wide-ranging interview was conducted by Daniel Morrow, executive director of the awards program.

By Computerworld (US) staff | 07 October, 2011 09:13

Tags: business issues, personnel, Apple

The grill: Barbara Koster

Barbara Koster, CIO of Prudential Financial, oversees 1,700 IT employees and formulates policies, establishes standards and architectures, and develops guidelines and management practices for the financial services giant. She also manages the company's global networks and data centers and other technology infrastructure.

By Lucas Mearian | 09 August, 2011 01:21

Tags: Prudential Financial, Barbara Koster, CIO Careers, Cloud, IT management

The sysadmin’s mantra: Manage time, think ‘abundance’ and softly does it

Internet activist, author and system administrator at Google, Tom Limoncelli, would like to see geeks getting more involved in social justice, organisations thinking more creatively about IT, and systems administrators embracing their soft skills.

By Dahna McConnachie | 09 January, 2009 07:35

Tags: system administrators

MIT's JoAnne Yates on information overload, 'CrackBerry' addicts and the 'always online' life

MIT Deputy Dean JoAnne Yates is co-author of an upcoming article on information overload called "Ubiquitous E-mail: Individual Experiences and Organizational Consequences of BlackBerry Use"

By Matt Hamblen | 18 November, 2008 08:19

Tags: IT management

Too old for tech? Not these Silicon Valley CEOs

Silicon Valley is the epitome of California's youth worship, geek-style. It's the stage where wunderkinds emerge and are feted: Yahoo's Jerry Yang and David Filo, Netscape's Marc Andreessen, Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg -- all in their 20s when they hit it big. Going farther back, let's not forget Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who were 21 and 25, respectively, when they started Apple Computer.

By Eric Lai | 03 November, 2008 11:44

Tags: corporate issues, personnel, careers, IT management

Career advice: Understanding a new boss

Anthony Hill

The dos and don'ts of IT job seeking

Social networking sites offer IT job seekers the resources to find peers with similar skills and learn more about employers. But candidates should be aware that the online outlets also provide employees a glimpse into the personal lives of potential hires. That can be good or it can be very bad, according to Rona Borre, president and CEO of Instant Technology, an IT recruiting and staff augmentation firm in the US. Borre recently talked with Denise Dubie about how new technologies can boost or torpedo job searches.

Career advice: How to move into a leadership role

Bruce Marcus, the executive vice president and CIO of The McGraw-Hill Companies, answers questions about moving into leadership positions, dealing with a difficult boss and the impact of the economy on IT.

Tips for aspiring tech entrepreneurs

IT professionals with strong technical backgrounds can drum up some great ideas for start-up companies, but they often lack the business acumen to keep those companies afloat. To help these would-be captains of industry, Computerworld recently spoke with Ken Blanchard, the best-selling co-author of The One Minute Entrepreneur and The One Minute Manager to gain insight on the steps that technology entrepreneurs should take -- and avoid. Step one: Remember the basics.