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Perhaps, but those employees work for a company that was out of touch with the market. Something has/had to give. I think the move to WP7 may well be a savvy o
by robgough 16y ago
Perhaps, but those employees work for a company that was out of touch with the market. Something has/had to give.
I think the move to WP7 may well be a savvy one (though I too would like to have seen a demo of it running), but can completely understand the employees concern.
Perhaps it would have made more sense to be more specific about what is going to happen with their employees, and done it internally - before rushing to tell the world about their new partnership. The resultant leaks wouldn't have been much bigger than what we already had this week.
- stcredzero 16y agoI think the move to WP7 may well be a savvy one So was ObjectShare's move to Java. That's not the issue. The issue is management being so out of touch with the employees. It's like a car with a loose steering linkage. Lots of things can go wrong, but a mechanism by which you'd even feel those things is also compromised.
- peterb 16y agoThey know exactly what they are doing. They are "knifing the baby". Some employees will suffer, but it is for the greater good. If the company fails (look at Nortel), then everyone suffers.
- stcredzero 16y agoLet's say you are reading a historical account of a woman knifing her baby to save something else of value. As you are reading, you come to realize that the mother was panicked and not thinking clearly, because you realize there was another way. I've read the same script before. The way this move was presented to the employees had bad results. I doubt the bad parts were really necessary. It's a complicated situation. I doubt there was a binary choice whether or not to knife the baby.