IBM Polska's general director to be replaced

General director of IBM Polska, Grzegorz Tomasiak, will be replaced by Dariusz Fabiszewski, the current president of Fujitsu Siemens Computers. According to sources, in August the new president will start running the domestic division of the largest software producer in the world, but he would neither confirm nor deny this news. Changing the CEO is another element of IBM's new strategy in Poland, which involves investing an additional $100 million in the CEE region; most of which is designated for Poland. The official reason for this, is that the country is about to join the EU, while unofficially it is the only country where IBM is not the market leader. Hewlett Packard (HP) is the company's largest domestic competitor, and has been, even before the HP merger with Compaq. IBM's main objective is to double its domestic operations and revenues by 2006. (Parkiet, p. 7) M.M.