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Times Staff and Wire Reports
Orange-based Vans Inc. said President and Chief Operating Officer Gary Schoenfeld will succeed his father, Walter Schoenfeld, as chief executive. . . . Los Angeles-based Store of Knowledge named Senior Vice President Laura C. Wynne president and chief operating officer. . . . Alameda-based Ascend Communications said it will acquire Mountain View-based Whitetree Inc. for about $72 million in stock, expanding its line of high-speed computer network switching products. . . . Mountain View-based Sun Microsystems Inc. said it bought Palo Alto-based LongView Technologies to boost the speed of programs written using Sun’s Java Internet language, for an undisclosed price.
