James Cannavino has got it all now, although there is no evidence that he had any promises ahead of time from the weird women: the president of IBM’s Entry Systems Division has been moved up to become general manager of the IBM Personal Systems line of business while retaining the Entry Systems post, reporting to senior vice-president and general manager of United States, Terry Lautenbach, and is a further beneficiary of the trend for people with technical rather than sales backgrounds to accede to high positions – IBM’s new president, Jack Kuehler also has a technical background; Cannavino succeeds Richard Gerstner, who suffers from chronic back trouble, and has been given an unspecified special assignment.
