Where Is…? On the outs—for now.

Dick Brown, 52
Chairman and CEO
Electronic Data Systems, Plano
He has his work cut out for him at the company that Ross Perot built, which has grown so unwieldy that it has stumbled on its own bureaucracy and lost ground to competitors.

Ross Garber, 33
Co-founder
Vignette, Austin
He presided over the most successful high-tech public offering in Texas in 1999 (Vignette's stock price is up more than 2,000 percent since the day of its IPO) but has since cashed out and quit, taking his power with him.

Richard Garriott, 38
Co-founder
Origin Systems, Austin
Last fall marked the arrival of the ninth and final chapter of his Ultima series, the longest-running fantasy role-playing game of all time. Farewell, Lord British.

Eckhard Pfeiffer, 58
Houston
Compaq is no longer the top seller of personal computers in the nation, and its stock price dropped more than 35 percent in 1999; no wonder he was forced to 'paq it in as CEO.

John Romero, 31
Chairman
ION Storm, Dallas
Repeated delays in the release of his long-awaited game, Daikatana, opened him up to ridicule in the press. The defection of several of his designers to rival companies only made matters worse.