TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2002 10:41 AM ET

Technology Briefing
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SUN EXECUTIVE JOINS NETEZZA BOARD Edward J. Zander, the retiring president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems, will join the board of Netezza, a start-up company that makes computers. Netezza, based in Framingham, Mass., plans to ship its first data-serving computers in two or three months. The computers will be used for analyzing marketing and customer data. Mr. Zander, above, the No. 2 executive at Sun, said earlier this month that he would retire from Sun on July 1 and would consider becoming chief executive of another company. He could not be reached for comment yesterday, but Jit Saxena, the chief executive of Netezza, said there were no plans for Mr. Zander to take the company's helm. "It's just a coincidence," Mr. Saxena said, "that we announced this thing when he was just leaving Sun." Chris Gaither (NYT)