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I don't believe these people are being fired... at least not all of them. Take a look at a report from 2 months ago[1]. 600 people from VMWare are working on
by kyrra 14y ago
I don't believe these people are being fired... at least not all of them. Take a look at a report from 2 months ago[1]. 600 people from VMWare are working on Pivotal, if those people don't count on VMWare's books anymore, that would be a reduction in headcount.
Also, the Chicago Tribune[2] article is better than the BizJournals one. One key point in this article is that by the end of 2013, they expect to hire 1000 new employees.
This all sounds like shuffling around of people and trimming a little fat, and has nothing to do with VMWare possibly doing badly.
[1] http://www.thevarguy.com/2012/12/05/vmware-confirms-pivotal-big-data-cloud-application-platform-spin-off/ http://www.thevarguy.com/2012/12/05/vmware-confirms-pivotal-...
[2] http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-vmware-resultsbre90r139-20130128,0,1231388.story http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-vmware-resu...
- kjackson2012 14y agoIn another article, they mentioned that they would be hiring as well, so they expect total headcount to be 1000 more than they have right now. They are doing a lot of expanding after they bought all the land around Hillsview, so it would be kind of bad if they started to cut really deeply, a lot of their buildings would be empty.
- xorgar831 14y agoAlthough Pivotal was being led by Martiz, who has left the company. https://blogs.vmware.com/console/2012/12/the-pivotal-initiative.html https://blogs.vmware.com/console/2012/12/the-pivotal-initiat... EDIT: Although he's now the Chief Strategy Officer at EMC, so maybe that's good. http://www.emc.com/corporate/emc-at-glance/exec-team/index.htm http://www.emc.com/corporate/emc-at-glance/exec-team/index.h...