Novell Layoffs Coming This Month?

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 21, 2005 @12:48AM from the tighten-your-belt dept.

Roblimo writes "Multiple sources close to and inside Novell have told us the company expects to lay off between 10% and 15% of all employees by the end of October. '...shareholders have suggested that Novell divest itself of its consulting group and GroupWise division, while at the same time instituting personnel cuts across the board to bring expenses more in line with revenues,' writes business columnist Lauren Rudd at NewsForge, who also notes that '[Novell's] NetWare revenue stream continues to deteriorate, declining by $36 million in fiscal 2004, excluding the impact of favorable foreign exchange rates.'" NewsForge is part of the same family of companies as Slashdot.

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A few years overdue by spycker · 2005-10-21 03:47 · Score: 0, Troll

Somewhere in the mid-90's at an Atlanta Comdex Microsoft had a booth right across from Novell. Microsoft was hawking its wares to replace all the NOS (Network Operating System for those too young) functionality that Novell offered. Literally right across the aisle.

The writing was on the wall!!! It took 7 years before Novell made any move to Linux. As far as I'm concerned if this is the vision inherent in Novell, except for the projects they BOUGHT into, its time for Novell to GO!!!
Re:Lol, stockholders by youngec · 2005-10-21 06:00 · Score: 0, Troll

Groupwise?

Are you kidding?

Have you heard of Groupwise 7? It's possibly the worst version of Groupwise ever released, in terms of product quality, and it's biggest new feature (Outlook connector) only makes it easier to switch to using Microsoft's products. It's almost like they want that product to die.