Legent Corp sent its president and outgoing chief executive John Burton along to the conference and he reported that the company’s European business should show results from its recent sales force restructuring in its fourth fiscal quarter, which ended on September 30, but according to Reuter, he declined to be more specific; he also said that the company is still interviewing chief executive candidates and that he has not yet found a replacement; Burton resigned as chief executive of Legent a few weeks back, saying that a new strategy is in place for the diversifying mainframe software products company to target the growing client-server computing market, adding that he will remain on the board if necessary: The company needs to focus on the execution (of the strategy put in place), he said – I’d like to do something else.
