There is no doubt that Marlborough, Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc has all its marbles in the right place when it comes to designing and building fault-tolerant Unix systems – it wouldn’t be an important partner of Hewlett-Packard Co if that weren’t the case, but it still needs to get its act together on the marketing and finance side: in its latest fire-fighting measure, Gabriel Fusco has relinquished his positions as president and chief executive in order to devote his time to other aspects of the company; an interim Office of the chief executive will be est-blished with two members, Richard Goldman, chief financial officer and Francis Hughes Jr, an outside director of the company; Fusco will remain on the board as chairman.
