The former head of Sun will be engaged in development of Taleo HRM provider

Sun Microsystems The ex-CEO Jonathan Schwartz who left the previous post in February long time kept silence concerning the further career perspectives. Now it became known of its appointment to the post of the head SaaS- provider Taleo.

The Taleo company, according to Schwartz, is engaged in development of on-demand of the solution for talent management (talent management). Web services which are offered by provider allow the companies to operate with information on candidates for employment as well as the available employees and also to make assessment from capabilities and to make plans of advanced training. The number of clients of Taleo exceeds 4.5 thousand, including 49 companies from the list of Fortune 100. Solutions of the company process given in total about about 200 million candidates.

The former head of Sun will lead through thorns of Taleo HRM provider

In addition to Schwartz, Taleo made also one more strategic personnel acquisition: Jim Tolonen, the former chief financial officer of Business Objects, joined the companies the board.

"Demand for our software brought Taleo to very fast trajectory of development. We intend to follow it, continuing to work on innovations and wishes of clients", - the chairman of the board of directors of Taleo Michael Gregoire commented on appointments. "Thanks to an extraordinary combination of the international experience of Johnathan and Jim's ability to perform strategic financial planning of Taleo will receive a powerful incentive to further growth", - he added.

Let's remind that Schwartz left Sun company practically right after it was purchased by Oracle. After the leaving it placed a series of posts in blogs in which discovered the mass of the interesting facts earlier not known to the public, including about the private meetings with Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs, Apple) and Bill Gates (Bill Gates, Microsoft).

According to Schwartz, he could write the book about the experience got during the management of Sun, also he invited everyone to read it Twitter and the blog. However, since March 9 of this year from it no messages arrived.

Schwartz repeatedly was exposed to criticism for his policy and a position during the transaction with Oracle. Nevertheless, Schwartz on a post of the head of Sun is put by a number of successful innovations on the Niva of "cloud" technologies, from open source of technologies to effective data centers, storage systems and other products down to credit. In Sun he worked more than 10 years, since 1996 when Sun was purchased by Lighthouse Design where he also held the CEO's post. He started the career in McKinsey & Company.