With apologies for going off the telecom track today, it would remiss not to mention the impending retirement of Cognos CEO Ron Zambonini. Not only one of the most colorful individuals within Canada's high-tech industry – and we can always do with a little personality, can't we? – Zambonini should also be acclaimed for the impressive job he has done making Cognos the world's leading business intelligence software maker. In a world dominated by big players such as Oracle, SAS and SAP and, increasingly, Microsoft, Cognos stands out as the little software company that could.
