Novell to layoff openSUSE Personnel
moving and storage . These current financial times have hit Novell as Novell announced today that another round of layoff’s will affect some openSUSE contributors. catering companies . dental crowns . However, they reiterate the point that they are fully committed to openSUSE development.
openSUSE board members Pascal Blesser and Bryen Yunashko announced the lay offs.”As you may know, recently Novell made the decision to reduce the workforce in their organization in the wake of our current economic outlook which is affecting everyone globally in all sectors of life,” they wrote, “Unfortunately, this has also impacted some members of the openSUSE Community who were employed by Novell when, earlier this week, they were laid off.”
Still can’t wait for openSUSE 11.2..
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Stupid. First they spend on marketing campaigns to repair the damage done by the MS-Novell deal, then they ruin their image entirely by firing the openSUSE developers.
I really give up on Novell (not on openSUSE, though).
I am a huge fan of Novell (as I think NDS > AD, Netware > Microsoft Server Editions). However, they make very poor business decisions.
They have pretty good cash on hand, and I think that will help them through this global recession, but the fact that now RedHat and Microsoft are collaborating in the Virtualization space may have negative impact on the Novell-MS Deal.
Eh? Where did they announce? The announcement was about the one that was already completed.
Chris: Novell joins just about every company in the world by laying off a few employees to keep the doors open, and you give up on them? When Microsoft announced 2 week ago that they were laying off employees did you give up on them too? You speak of ruining an image… How is Microsoft’s image when they mess up on severance packages and try to pull back money from fired employees.
It’s tough times everywhere. Good folks are loosing their jobs through no fault of their own. You call the decisions stupid. But if you can’t shed a few employees now, you run the risk of loosing everyone in the future.
Have you ever personally had to fire one of your own employees? Someone you consider a friend? It’s not a fun thing and not done out of stupidity. Rather than throwing out harsh words for people doing the best they can, why don’t you offer some support to those affected?
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