Technology >> CEO Interviews >> July 14, 2003
DOUGLAS L. MICHELS is the Chief Executive Officer, President and a
Director of Tarantella, Inc. As co-founder of the company in 1979, he
has played a key executive leadership role in the company's growth and
evolution to its current form. In May 2001, Tarantella, Inc., was
created from its predecessor company, The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Two
of SCO's three divisions were sold to Caldera Systems and the company
was renamed for its remaining Tarantella division. (Caldera Systems
subsequently changed its own name to The SCO Group.) Prior to becoming
CEO in 1998, Mr. Michels served as Executive Vice President and Chief
Technical Officer. As one of the company's key strategists, he has been
involved in all of its major acquisitions, which included the purchase
of IXI and Visionware in the UK in 1993 and 1994. These two companies
merged into the client integration division that was the genesis of the
current Tarantella business. Mr. Michels was also instrumental in the
purchase of UnixWare from Novell in 1995, which transferred ownership of
UNIX System source technologies to SCO. In March 2000, he led the effort
to radically reshape the structure of SCO by reorganizing the company
into three independent divisions in order to place more focus and
accountability on its major lines of business. Mr. Michels graduated
with honors from the University of California at Santa Cruz, with a
Bachelor of Science degree in Computer and Information Science. Profile
Mr. Michels: Tarantella is a company that produces software which is
used primarily for providing secure remote access to applications and
data. The overriding vision
