With global information technology spending hitting $3.5 trillion last year, integrating more technologically advanced systems makes sense for large and small businesses alike.
Mr. Kern will manage the company's global information technology strategy.
His father is the vice president for global information technology and chief information officer of the Colgate-Palmolive Company, also in New York.
White Plains-based Texaco has awarded a five-year, $100 million contract to IBM Global Services to be the company's primary global information technology service provider.
NYSE Euronext executives will hold major management positions, including those of chief operating officer, head of global information technology and general counsel.
It's not hard to imagine, then, the splintering of the global information technology industry into multiple camps according to their willingness to cooperate with governments on security matters.
At Oracle, Gary Roberts, head of global information technologies, points out that Internet applications tend to be smaller than yesterday's proprietary systems, and the software is faster to develop.
The security of global information technologies should be beyond reproach, and that's not the case at the moment.
But the government's 1990s designs to nurture the city into a global information-technology powerhouse appear to have stalled, resulting in something of a reversion to a manufacturing and tourism economy.
Recent new topics include on-line ethics, "agent" ethics (robots, softbots), cyborg ethics (part human, part machine), the "open source movement", electronic government, global information ethics, information technology and genetics, computing for developing countries, computing and terrorism, ethics and nanotechnology, to name only a few examples.
According to IMS Health, a global information and technology services company, the top 10 prescription versions of these drugs accounted for $9.2 billion in U.S. sales in 2014, down from $12.3 billion in 2010.
