Tim Negris, who just went over to tools house Blyth Holdings Inc as executive vice president, marketing and development from IBM Corp, is now president and chief executive. Mike Minor has stepped down as chief execuive and chairman, the president and chief operating officer has also gone and Richard Hanschen is back as chairman. Blyth is about to launch an advanced components-style object-oriented edition of the Omnis scripting environment for Java Beans and ActiveX programming.