From WSJ - Compaq Executive Pesatori Quits to Join Synaxia Networks
Jeff Killeen
Compaq Executive Pesatori Quits to Join Synaxia Networks
An WSJ INTERACTIVE JOURNAL News Roundup
HOUSTON -- The head of Compaq Computer Corp.'s enterprise products group,
Enrico Pesatori, resigned to become president and chief executive officer of
start-up Synaxia Networks.
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Jeff Killeen - www.Killeen.cc
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David Mathog
>May 5, 2000
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>Compaq Executive Pesatori Quits to Join Synaxia Networks
>
And good riddance to him. For the second time.
David Mathog
mat...@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu
Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech
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Terry C. Shannon
"David Mathog" <mat...@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu> wrote in message
news:8f1vmr$r...@gap.cco.caltech.edu...
> In article <3913...@news.toast.net>, "Jeff Killeen" <Je...@Killeen.cc>
writes:
> >May 5, 2000
> >
> >Compaq Executive Pesatori Quits to Join Synaxia Networks
> >
>
> And good riddance to him. For the second time.
Well, ya never know... he rose from the dead once before!
cheers,
terry s
Paul Coen
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> In article <3913...@news.toast.net>, "Jeff Killeen" <Je...@Killeen.cc> writes:
> >May 5, 2000
> >
> >Compaq Executive Pesatori Quits to Join Synaxia Networks
> >
>
> And good riddance to him. For the second time.
>
For the third, if your site was ever a Zenith Data Systems customer
(he helped dismantle Zenith as well).
JF Mezei
> > And good riddance to him. For the second time.
I seem to recall that when Pessatori came to Digital from Olivetti, he
inheritted the PC business. I seem to recall a significant advertising push
(at least in Canada) and Digital starting to get its brand across as a PC
manufacturer. But because Palmer was doing his rounds of reorganisations at
each quarter to please Wall Street, he let go Pessatori because the PC
business wasn't up to snuff yet.
My *impression* was that Pessatori was doing the right thing, but Palmer
didn't give him the time for his decisions to bear fruit.
As such, I do not quite understand why Pessatori seems to have such a bad
image. What has he done at Tandem, and now at Compaq ?
Terry C. Shannon
"JF Mezei" <jfmezei...@vl.videotron.ca> wrote in message
news:3914F877...@vl.videotron.ca...
> > > >Compaq Executive Pesatori Quits to Join Synaxia Networks
> > > And good riddance to him. For the second time.
>
>
> I seem to recall that when Pessatori came to Digital from Olivetti, he
> inheritted the PC business. I seem to recall a significant advertising
push
> (at least in Canada) and Digital starting to get its brand across as a PC
> manufacturer. But because Palmer was doing his rounds of reorganisations
at
> each quarter to please Wall Street, he let go Pessatori because the PC
> business wasn't up to snuff yet.
Enrico took over DEC's Systems Business Unit back in 1994 or so under one of
DEC's Reorgs of the Month. In that role he was responsible for AlphaServers,
VAXen, and Storage.
Enrico's departure from DEC may have been related to SBU performance, but
not the PC group. Bernhard Auer fell on his sword for that one... Bernie's
goal was to assert DEC as one of the top five PC vendors, and he maniacally
focused on that goal, silly little things like profits be damned.