[legion]

There are some real gems in this article:

"But for CA, shoddy ethics have been replaced by bumbling execution."

"One reason it's been so hard to fix CA's internal systems is that the company barely had any. In fact, it turns out that the business-software powerhouse - which has products ranging from database management to storage and security running inside more than 95 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 - had never really bothered to use business software. We're not kidding."

"Where Microsoft has long been the most feared software company, the old CA claimed the title of most despised - not by competitors but by its own customers."

"But Kumar was a liar, of course, and an astonishingly convincing one at that. And for a long time even an astute accountant like Schuetze was hornswoggled. As the director puts it, "Kumar could sell sand to Saddam Hussein."