Eckhard Pfeiffer (born August 20, 1941 in Lauban, Germany—now Lubań, Poland) is a business executive of German ancestry, and a former CEO of Compaq from 1991-1998. Events 636 - Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Not to be confused with Lyuban near Saint Petersburg in Russia Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland The German people (Deutsche are an Ethnic group, in the sense of sharing a common German culture, descent and speaking the German language as Compaq Computer Corporation was an American Personal computer company founded in 1982 and is now a brand name of Hewlett-Packard. He joined Compaq from Texas Instruments, and established operations from scratch in both Europe and Asia. Compaq Computer Corporation was an American Personal computer company founded in 1982 and is now a brand name of Hewlett-Packard. Texas Instruments ( better known in the electronics industry (and popularly as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, USA He was named as one of TIME's "Cyber Elite Top 50" for 1998. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and
He received his MBA from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. Southern Methodist University ("SMU" is a private, Coeducational University in University Park, Texas (an enclave His leadership in the early 1990s was successful. At the same time as Compaq began to dominate the server market, they entered the retail computer market with the Presario which one of the first manufacturers in the mid-1990s to market a sub-$1000 PC. Presario is a series of Desktop computers and notebooks from HP. In order to maintain the prices it wanted, Compaq became the first first-tier computer manufacturer to utilize CPUs from AMD and Cyrix. Cyrix was a CPU manufacturer that began in 1978 in Richardson Texas as a specialist supplier of high-performance math co-processors for 286 and The price war resulting from Compaq's actions ultimately drove numerous competitors, most notably IBM and Packard Bell, from this market. International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology Packard Bell is a name used by two different consumer electronics companies
Under his tenure, Compaq made several major acquisitions. In 1997, Compaq bought Tandem Computers, known for their NonStop server line. Tandem Computers was an early manufacturer of Fault-tolerant computer systems, marketed to the growing number of Transaction processing customers who used them for NonStop servers are a line of Fault-tolerant computer systems, optimized for transaction processing and providing an extreme level of availability and data integrity This acquisition instantly gave Compaq a presence in the higher end business computing market. In 1998, Compaq acquired Digital Equipment Corporation, the leading company in the previous generation of computing during the 1970s and early 1980s. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American company in the Computer industry This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. This acquisition made Compaq, at the time, the world's second largest computer maker in the world in terms of revenue.
However, Pfeiffer had little vision for what the combined companies should do, or indeed how the three dramatically different cultures could work as a single entity, and Compaq struggled as a result. Pfeiffer was forced out as CEO in 1999 in a coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen and was eventually replaced by Michael Capellas, formerly CIO of the company. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Michael David Capellas (born August 19, 1955 in Warren, Ohio)has been the Chairman and Capellas was able to restore some of the luster lost in the latter part of the Pfeiffer era, but the company still struggled against lower-cost competitors such as Dell. The multinational technology company Dell Inc develops manufactures sells and supports Personal computers and other computer-related products
Pfeiffer was one of the founders of Accoona, an Internet search engine provider, and has been its Chairman since December 2004. Accoona is a New Jersey based- Internet company Their main product is a Search engine that claims to use Artificial intelligence to better understand
Pfeiffer serves on the boards of several major corporations including General Motors, Ericsson, and DirecTV. General Motors Corporation ( GM) ( is a multinational automobile manufacturer founded in 1908 and headquartered in the United States. Ericsson ( Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson) () one of the largest Swedish companies is a leading provider of telecommunication and data communication systems DirecTV (trademarked as "DIREC' TV' " is a Direct broadcast satellite (DBS service based in El Segundo California, USA, that was founded
External links
- Accoona press release on naming Pfeiffer as Chairman, Dec. 3, 2004
- Compaq profile, 1998
- TIME magazine profile, 1998
- NNDB listing
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