Software AG Executive and Leadership Team

VAST Data is the AI Operating System company powering the next generation of intelligent systems with a unified software infrastructure stack that was purpose-built to unlock the full potential of AI. The VAST AI OS consolidates foundational data and compute services and agentic execution into one scalable platform, enabling organizations to deploy and facilitate communication between AI agents, reason over real-time data, and automate complex workflows at global scale. Built on VASTs breakthrough DASE architecture the worlds first true parallel distributed system architecture that eliminates tradeoffs between performance, scale, simplicity, and resilience VAST has transformed its modern infrastructure into a global fabric for reasoning AI.

Rocket Software is the global technology leader and partner of choice empowering the world's leading businesses on their modernization journeys, spanning core systems to the cloud. Trusted by over 12,500 customers, 750 partners, and more than 3,000 employees around the world, Rocket Software empowers companies to maximize their data, applications, and infrastructure to deliver critical services that power our modern world. Rocket Software is a privately held U.S. corporation headquartered in the Boston area with centers of excellence strategically located throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Rocket Software is a portfolio company of Bain Capital Private Equity.

Datadog, Inc. is a cloud-based observability and security platform founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, New York. The company provides a unified SaaS platform that integrates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, security monitoring, network performance monitoring, real user monitoring, and cloud cost management, enabling engineering, operations, and security teams to maintain full visibility across cloud and hybrid environments. Datadog's platform supports integrations with major cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, as well as a broad ecosystem of third-party tools and open-source technologies. The company serves customers across financial services, healthcare, retail, technology, media, and government sectors globally. Datadog went public in September 2019 and was added to the S&P 500 Index in July 2025. The company is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol DDOG.

The SCO Group (often referred to SCO and later called The TSG Group) was an American software company in existence from 2002 to 2012 that became known for owning Unix operating system assets that had belonged to the Santa Cruz Operation (the original SCO), including the UnixWare and OpenServer technologies, and then, under CEO Darl McBride, pursuing a series of high-profile legal battles known as the SCO-Linux controversies. The SCO Group began in 2002 with a renaming of Caldera International, accompanied by McBride becoming CEO and a major change in business strategy and direction. The SCO brand was re-emphasized and new releases of UnixWare and OpenServer came out. The company also attempted some initiatives in the e-commerce space with the SCOBiz and SCOx programs. In 2003, the SCO Group claimed that the increasingly popular free Linux operating system contained substantial amounts of Unix code that IBM had improperly put there. The SCOsource division was created to monetize the company's intellectual property by selling Unix license rights to use Linux. The SCO v. IBM lawsuit was filed, asking for billion-dollar damages and setting off one of the top technology battles in the history of the industry. By a year later, four additional lawsuits had been filed involving the company. Reaction to SCO's actions from the free and open source software community was intensely negative and the general IT industry was not enamored of the actions either. SCO soon became, as Businessweek headlined, "The Most Hated Company in Tech". SCO Group stock rose rapidly during 2003, but then SCOsource revenue became erratic and the stock began a long fall. Despite the industry's attention to the lawsuits, SCO continued to maintain a product focus as well, putting out a major new release of OpenServer that incorporated the UnixWare kernel inside it. SCO also made a major push in the burgeoning smartphones space, launching the Me Inc. platform for mobility services. But despite these actions, the company steadily lost money and ...