RS/6000 boss Mark Bregman has heeded IBM Corp chairman Louis Gerstner’s recent messages about putting more Big Blue technologies together into solutions packages. Bregman’s taken AIX VP Donna Van Fleet off the IBM Unix variant and given her the reins to a new RS/6000 business solutions group which will create commercial and technical hardware/software solutions packages in five industry areas. It will use workstations, commercial servers, the SP parallel servers, system and packaged software. IBM didn’t know how big the group will eventually be. Bill Colton, head of the ill-fated Power Personal Systems Division’s engineering team, most of which was folded back into RS/6000 last year, has been named to run the division’s day-to-day hardware and software development activities as VP development. Bob Greenberg formerly VP PowerParallel systems development assumes responsibility for overall strategic hardware and software planning across the division. Meantime, VP RS/6000 marketing and assistant general manager Jeff Mason has been moved upstairs to become VP marketing for Nick Donofrio’s amalgamated server business, which is responsible for RS/6000, AS/400s and S/390 systems. Bregman has brought in former colleague Bob Dutkowski to replace Mason; Bregman and Dutkowski previously worked together as assistants to Gerstner. Dutkowski served time as a marketing executive in Asia/Pacific. RS/6000 group claims its business is now fairly evenly split between technical and commercial sales.
