Nishan does not plan to hire a new CTO or VP of engineering to replace Eidler, according to Clark. "Our technical direction has been pretty well set; we have a pretty good roadmap," he says. "It's not like we have a huge gap... Frankly, it's not that big a deal."
Not that big a deal that the CTO and VP of engineering of a technology company has unexpectedly quit? Perhaps not. After all, Eidler had been with Nishan for less than a year. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of StorageWay, a storage service provider (SSP) acquired by Cable & Wireless (NYSE: CWP) in July 2002 for $2 million (see C&W Acquires StorageWay Cheap).
Before helping to start StorageWay in 1999, he held various positions at Auspex Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: ASPX), Connex (acquired by Western Digital Corp. [NYSE: WDC]), and MTI Technology Corp. (Nasdaq: MTIC).
Todd Spangler, US Editor, Byte and Switch
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