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Long time VMware employee here. While this is of course a sad event, it is not a reflection on the strength/weakness of VMware. Actually for a lot of my time h
by jadc 14y ago
Long time VMware employee here.
While this is of course a sad event, it is not a reflection on the strength/weakness of VMware. Actually for a lot of my time here, we've had "carte blanche" in terms of hiring. The challenge was finding enough qualified people. I do think with the recent slew of acquisitions, the company may have grown too much too fast and is needing to reorganize hence this announcement.
From what I heard, the company is still planning to grow its headcount in 2013 from where it is today. It is also engaged in a massive expansion project which will triple the size of the campus in Palo Alto. It would not be undertaking such a massive and costly effort if a permanent downsize is being envisaged.
- digitalengineer 14y agoWhen they bought SlideRocket it just fell dead in the water. Hell, I can't even add an RSS feed or embed some HTML. It's one of the top request from clients in the forum. (Paying client here. Sliderocket is great for out account managers doing presentations and keeping versions in sync).
- chris_wot 14y agoThey seem to be following an EMC playbook. Buy lots of corporations, shove them in and hope they work. Given that EMC has a fair amount of control over them in upper management, is it any wonder they are having, uh, growing pains?
- jadc 14y agoYeah agree that SlideRocket could be super useful. There was a lot of excitement internally at the company towards using it but after the first few tries, many have given up in frustration and reverted back to PowerPoint. I don't have any insight into the SlideRocket team to understand this lack of traction. My theory is that this was more of a whim acquisition on the part of the previous CEO and isn't going anywhere because it falls quite outside the core focus of the company.
- digitalengineer 14y agoThanks, I understand. In the 'nice to know' I've made sliderocket presentations that were very well received by compagnies like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and more. I love the way I receive analytics and could track it as they forewarded my presentations. ;-)