Richard Belluzzo

Richard Belluzzo (often known as Rick Belluzzo) is a US businessman who worked as an executive at Hewlett-Packard (executive vice president), SGI (as CEO), and Microsoft (as president and COO at one point) before becoming CEO of Quantum Corp. in 2002.

Much of his career is clouded in controversy and many consider him to be responsible for the demise of SGI. [ [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/13/sgi_belluzzo/ The Register: Belluzzo's Nvidia pact 'sealed SGI's fate'] ] [ [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/09/sgi_chapter11_analysis/ The Register: Microsoft man's shadow over bankrupt SGI] ] [ [http://slashdot.org/articles/05/11/03/1325203.shtml SlashDot: Silicon Graphics To Be Delisted From NYSE] ] [ [http://www.msboycott.com/news/00_01_17.shtml MSBoycott: Gates 'Steps Down' But Stays Put; Breakup Rumors Run Rampant; Caldera Settles; Permatemps Score With The Supremes] ] He was a strong advocate at HP to reduce their investments in HP-UX and PA-RISC in favor of Windows NT and Itanium, as well as getting SGI to cut their investments in IRIX and MIPS. The effect of these decisions was to destroy two of the leading platforms in 64-bit computing and greatly increased the opportunity for Intel and Microsoft to get into high-end computing.

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* [http://www.quantum.com/AboutUs/CorporateProfile/ExecutiveBiographies/Index.aspx Quantum Corporate Profile: executive biographies]
* [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/65180_microsoft04.shtml SeattlePI.com: Microsoft president and COO Belluzzo resigns]
* [http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-515509.html ZDNET: SGI surprise: Belluzzo out as CEO]
* [http://news.com.com/2100-1023-230220.html CNET: Analysts: Belluzzo would face uphill battle]