Quick-Step Floors the Tour de France, taking two stage wins. Bettini defended his world championship in Stuttgart. In 2008 Gert Steegmans took the final stage of the 2008 Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées. Paolo Bettini retired after the world championship in Varese. In both 2008 and 2009 Stijn Devolder took the Tour of Flanders and Tom Boonen, Paris–Roubaix. After two seasons of disappointment, a resurgent Omega Pharma–Quick-Step and Tom Boonen, took four major Spring classics victories, including the four cobblestone courses E3 Harelbeke, Gent–Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix. In October 2012, the team fired their veteran rider Levi Leipheimer after he
BMC Software executives include the president of the Mainframe Service Management unit—Bill Miller; and the chief financial officer—Stephen Solcher. BMC had 6,100 employees in March 2010. BMC was a member of the S&P 500 and was listed as being a member of Fortune's "400 Best Big Companies" in 2009. As of December 2016, Peter Leav succeeded Bob Beauchamp as president and chief executive officer; Beauchamp remains chairman of the board of directors. As the computer industry moves in the direction of cloud computing, BMC is working with firms like Cisco and VMware to build a so-called "Unified Computing System" described as a