I have seen it happen as well at HP, where I have been employed for about 5 years. The majority of people that did get the axe were from lower end jobs where the qualifications of the people did not really matter for technical services and in financial departments where the whole department could be moved to low cost countries with it having only a minor impact on services.
Even though our fresh from school graduates that work for peanuts were too expensive for those lower end jobs where they could fill those positions with an abundance of engineers like in India.
At this point, cutting jobs for the sake of getting peanuts for dimes might be worthwhile considering, but on the long term, those peanuts will be worth dollars and again they will need to reconsider moving jobs and cutting jobs in those places.
Is there really anyone that cares if they use microsoft windows for their desktop machines or that use software made in India or for that matter anywhere in the world?
The Chinese government is just totally paranoid. They are still as communist as always and even found a way to drain the riches of the world to benifit only the richest in China.
China as a whole is still corrupt, people are still repressed, and everything from outside china is still completely censored.
Who knows what projects have been funded during the stealth bomber development. New chemical weapons? New nucleair missiles? Improved Nucleair subs?
The UK is planning on replacing its current submarines with new ones. Can you imagine the US already having the same subs in action?
They kept the space shuttles in production far too long. After the first shuttle blew into samll pieces they should have started building a new space shuttle with modern technology maybe even improving performance and redesigning the interiour of the craft. With stats and dta from several missions they would have had sufficient data to improve the shuttles instead of refurbishing them all the time.
Either way, microsoft is aware it will face tougher competition in the future, not only from the current big market players like apple, oracle or adobe. They will have to deal with newcomers from the the asian market. China is pushing linux based desktops in their government administration and will be funding new software development companies to develop software for their needs. This would mean that these companies get financial reserves to fund other developments (commercial) and build a firm base against set software houses like MS or all the others.
So why do we keep bothering attacking MS when the future will show that we didn't even needed to waste our time on it.
If IBM drops their physical productline, they will go bust sooner then they could spell IBM.
Companies like IBM, HP, SUN and Apple can't go business without selling some equipment. That has been their businessmodel ever since they started. They have to sell the whole package even with low(?)profit margins on their hardware.
At the moment it will be hard to compete with subsidised economies like the chinese, but everybody should keep their headsup, look forward and know for sure that those economies will go bust as they are letting us go bust.
If you know chinese communist history, you will certainly agree they never ever innovated anything themselves since they dumped the chinese emperor. As a whole they are not really the smartest under the current regime. If they were, they would have become an economic superpower 20 years ago, but it didn't happen, because their ideals were too much based on illusions that they could do without the capital from the west. Look at their military equipment, 98% of it has been copied from russian equipment which they were allowed to build under license from the sovjets.
Now they want to work together with India to become global leaders in IT? How are they planning on doing that? I am not even convinced that india can keep their current position in that market. Both countries are very corrupt, they lack any sense of responsibilities and still expect the west to pay for their disasters.
India already is thinking of introducing VAT on all products sold to be able to distribute the wealth within India because they have reached a certain limit of attracting a part of global employment, china will end up the same way, at some point they will need to tax the big companies harder to keep people out of poverty, which will lead into a more expensive workforce.
If they could move into the IT industry, that would mean a lot less overhead for moving services, smaller products etc..... the only way to compete on a large scale with less expensive high educated employees.
The high oil prices are actually a good thing for the west. This basic product will make production and transportation a lot more expensive and we have time to rethinker our economic model.
I have myself done trademark registrations for a company I used to work for. Although not that big of a company, The registration of the trademarks meant more control on the use of all the logo's, names and figures. It helped us to increase venue through licensing and merchandising. The trademark would allow us to prevent the use with the same domain for which it was registred.
In case of Apple, iPod and Shuffle are likely to have been registred separately but both for electronic devices which would in general play music if they registred it as such. As long as they kept the definition of the trademark as general as possible they will be able to prevent the sales of this device almost world wide. If they just trademarked it as a device to play music files, they will not be that likely to prevent the use of the name.
To my supprise, visiting the sco website, they are selling the sco openserver version, after they abandonned it like 4 years ago. My first job was with SCO openserver and AIX and last I remembered was they made openserver obsolete in favor of unixware.
True, it does take less ux admins to admin their systems, while the crap of windows require more people to admin them because they fail at what they are created for : usability
The dot com flush had to happen. The wages were going through the roof, skillsets of applicants were dropping even faster and there was a major surplus of MS admin around with only that little creditation that MS handed out, the certificats.
For the unix world, it has been pretty stable, although not always as pleasant. It was a shame that a lot of wannabees started moving their career from MS admin to UX admins, not the best at it. That made the prices drop drastically for ux admins with a broader knowledge of the product and apps on it.
I am just glad we have passed that period of time and can concentrate on making a career work again.
Where I am currently employed, it is very obvious that it is not that simple anymore for the average MS admin to move around and find better careers. About 50% of them just get stuck on lower level support, others that are being moved away from their current functions just end up as support admins at large corporations, with little to look forward too.
Just waiting to see how aggressive these MS admins will get wanting to go ahead, which isn't that likely to happen without the enterprise ux knowledge they should have.
The support for linux from software vendors is increasing drastically, that is the only reason why linux is double digit growth. At the moment I only see the major growth for linux in the application server market.
I know at least of one place that will switch Oracle application servers from a windows platform to a linux platform.
It wouldn't supprise me if the decision to force out Fiorina had something to do with the fact Apple is doing so great.
New innovative product that overperformed their expectations.
HP finally realised they missed the boat completely.
Ofcourse there were duplicate jobs. Do you know it was only with the second WFR they started looking at the duplicate jobs. The first WFR was a small reorganisation, get rid of the people who were to expensive, not performant or impossible to get rid off.
The overall purpose of the jobcuts was to place them abroad. To offshore them. They duplicated essentially every job at the new HP with this process.
That was not what I would call global rebalancing as she termed it.
I used to work at HP as well. For me it was the same thing. Survived every WFR (layoffs) but had to separate with the company as the globalisation had the worst effect on overall customer satisfaction where it was obvious that every effort they had put into the execution of HP's strategy was focused on the cents they could safe with replacing skilled workers with low-end low-budget ones in the 'currenly' still cheaper countries. But how long will this last? Once you give a customer a lower price they will keep pushing for lower cost even if it means setting up office in Burundi or in Congo because India and Kualu lumpur has become to expensive.
You know when it has gone bad?
When you have to cough up more money and you still have to do it on your own.
One golden rule when outsourcing is to take into account those people really don't care about any of your business and the result you are trying to accomplish.
If you find a company that also takes that into account you might consider working with them else it is just lost time.
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I have seen it happen as well at HP, where I have been employed for about 5 years. The majority of people that did get the axe were from lower end jobs where the qualifications of the people did not really matter for technical services and in financial departments where the whole department could be moved to low cost countries with it having only a minor impact on services. Even though our fresh from school graduates that work for peanuts were too expensive for those lower end jobs where they could fill those positions with an abundance of engineers like in India. At this point, cutting jobs for the sake of getting peanuts for dimes might be worthwhile considering, but on the long term, those peanuts will be worth dollars and again they will need to reconsider moving jobs and cutting jobs in those places.
Is there really anyone that cares if they use microsoft windows for their desktop machines or that use software made in India or for that matter anywhere in the world? The Chinese government is just totally paranoid. They are still as communist as always and even found a way to drain the riches of the world to benifit only the richest in China. China as a whole is still corrupt, people are still repressed, and everything from outside china is still completely censored.
Woooot from alt-tabbed browsing to tabbed browsing. In the near future, it will be CTRL-DEL instead of CTRL-ALT-DEL.
I don't know what the characteristics of these grown diamonds are, but are you sure they are as hard as the real ones?
Me being stupid.
Who knows what projects have been funded during the stealth bomber development. New chemical weapons? New nucleair missiles? Improved Nucleair subs? The UK is planning on replacing its current submarines with new ones. Can you imagine the US already having the same subs in action?
They kept the space shuttles in production far too long. After the first shuttle blew into samll pieces they should have started building a new space shuttle with modern technology maybe even improving performance and redesigning the interiour of the craft. With stats and dta from several missions they would have had sufficient data to improve the shuttles instead of refurbishing them all the time.
Either way, microsoft is aware it will face tougher competition in the future, not only from the current big market players like apple, oracle or adobe. They will have to deal with newcomers from the the asian market. China is pushing linux based desktops in their government administration and will be funding new software development companies to develop software for their needs. This would mean that these companies get financial reserves to fund other developments (commercial) and build a firm base against set software houses like MS or all the others. So why do we keep bothering attacking MS when the future will show that we didn't even needed to waste our time on it.
How would these look like with thumb drive devices for the handless?
That is why I stick with my commercial unix and keep linux on the side for none critical environments.
If IBM drops their physical productline, they will go bust sooner then they could spell IBM. Companies like IBM, HP, SUN and Apple can't go business without selling some equipment. That has been their businessmodel ever since they started. They have to sell the whole package even with low(?)profit margins on their hardware. At the moment it will be hard to compete with subsidised economies like the chinese, but everybody should keep their headsup, look forward and know for sure that those economies will go bust as they are letting us go bust.
WHAT A CROCK! Europeans do it with pride! Honesty! Fair play!
If you know chinese communist history, you will certainly agree they never ever innovated anything themselves since they dumped the chinese emperor. As a whole they are not really the smartest under the current regime. If they were, they would have become an economic superpower 20 years ago, but it didn't happen, because their ideals were too much based on illusions that they could do without the capital from the west. Look at their military equipment, 98% of it has been copied from russian equipment which they were allowed to build under license from the sovjets. Now they want to work together with India to become global leaders in IT? How are they planning on doing that? I am not even convinced that india can keep their current position in that market. Both countries are very corrupt, they lack any sense of responsibilities and still expect the west to pay for their disasters. India already is thinking of introducing VAT on all products sold to be able to distribute the wealth within India because they have reached a certain limit of attracting a part of global employment, china will end up the same way, at some point they will need to tax the big companies harder to keep people out of poverty, which will lead into a more expensive workforce. If they could move into the IT industry, that would mean a lot less overhead for moving services, smaller products etc..... the only way to compete on a large scale with less expensive high educated employees. The high oil prices are actually a good thing for the west. This basic product will make production and transportation a lot more expensive and we have time to rethinker our economic model.
You actually get respect :( now I am sure I am alone on this world.
And do you know why they lost in Belgium?
I have myself done trademark registrations for a company I used to work for. Although not that big of a company, The registration of the trademarks meant more control on the use of all the logo's, names and figures. It helped us to increase venue through licensing and merchandising. The trademark would allow us to prevent the use with the same domain for which it was registred. In case of Apple, iPod and Shuffle are likely to have been registred separately but both for electronic devices which would in general play music if they registred it as such. As long as they kept the definition of the trademark as general as possible they will be able to prevent the sales of this device almost world wide. If they just trademarked it as a device to play music files, they will not be that likely to prevent the use of the name.
To my supprise, visiting the sco website, they are selling the sco openserver version, after they abandonned it like 4 years ago. My first job was with SCO openserver and AIX and last I remembered was they made openserver obsolete in favor of unixware.
True, it does take less ux admins to admin their systems, while the crap of windows require more people to admin them because they fail at what they are created for : usability
The dot com flush had to happen. The wages were going through the roof, skillsets of applicants were dropping even faster and there was a major surplus of MS admin around with only that little creditation that MS handed out, the certificats. For the unix world, it has been pretty stable, although not always as pleasant. It was a shame that a lot of wannabees started moving their career from MS admin to UX admins, not the best at it. That made the prices drop drastically for ux admins with a broader knowledge of the product and apps on it. I am just glad we have passed that period of time and can concentrate on making a career work again. Where I am currently employed, it is very obvious that it is not that simple anymore for the average MS admin to move around and find better careers. About 50% of them just get stuck on lower level support, others that are being moved away from their current functions just end up as support admins at large corporations, with little to look forward too. Just waiting to see how aggressive these MS admins will get wanting to go ahead, which isn't that likely to happen without the enterprise ux knowledge they should have.
The support for linux from software vendors is increasing drastically, that is the only reason why linux is double digit growth. At the moment I only see the major growth for linux in the application server market. I know at least of one place that will switch Oracle application servers from a windows platform to a linux platform.
It wouldn't supprise me if the decision to force out Fiorina had something to do with the fact Apple is doing so great. New innovative product that overperformed their expectations. HP finally realised they missed the boat completely.
To be honest, she is old news. From the start we have seen HP wither with every decission she made.
Ofcourse there were duplicate jobs. Do you know it was only with the second WFR they started looking at the duplicate jobs. The first WFR was a small reorganisation, get rid of the people who were to expensive, not performant or impossible to get rid off. The overall purpose of the jobcuts was to place them abroad. To offshore them. They duplicated essentially every job at the new HP with this process. That was not what I would call global rebalancing as she termed it.
I used to work at HP as well. For me it was the same thing. Survived every WFR (layoffs) but had to separate with the company as the globalisation had the worst effect on overall customer satisfaction where it was obvious that every effort they had put into the execution of HP's strategy was focused on the cents they could safe with replacing skilled workers with low-end low-budget ones in the 'currenly' still cheaper countries. But how long will this last? Once you give a customer a lower price they will keep pushing for lower cost even if it means setting up office in Burundi or in Congo because India and Kualu lumpur has become to expensive.
You know when it has gone bad? When you have to cough up more money and you still have to do it on your own. One golden rule when outsourcing is to take into account those people really don't care about any of your business and the result you are trying to accomplish. If you find a company that also takes that into account you might consider working with them else it is just lost time.