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I.P. Nichols

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Re: Revenue from IDE products, 300 Borlanders are loosing jobs but management has free Golf


2006-05-04 10:56:38 AM
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"Dave Nottage writes:
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Serge Dosyukov (Dragon Soft) writes:

>"Borland will reduce its workforce by approximately 300 employees, or
 >about 20 percent of its regular full-time staff. The majority of
 >staff reductions will come from the re-scoping of Borland's
 >international operations."
I'm wondering how much it is being reduced by due to redundant
positions from the acquisition of Segue.
I would have thought that the majority of Segue employees made redundant by
the acquisition would have been terminated by Segue prior to Borland taking
control and merging the two companies together.
From the wording of the announcement it is sounds more like Borland has
decided to retrench the aggressive expansion of it is international marketing
efforts instituted during the past few years.
 
 
Kyle A. Miller

Delphi Developer

2006-05-04 11:56:01 AM

Re: Revenue from IDE products, 300 Borlanders are loosing jobs but management has free Golf

Serge Dosyukov (Dragon Soft) writes:
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Borland Unveils New Organizational Structure
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biz.yahoo.com/bw/060503/20060503005304.html

"Borland's internally formed Developer Tools Group. This group now consists
of approximately 180 Borland employees, with sales, marketing and product
teams working independently within the Company."

This doesn't really surprise me. You can not absorb all of these companies
and not force some organizational change for fiscal and personnel reasons.
 
John Jacobson

Delphi Developer

2006-05-04 01:00:58 PM

Re: Revenue from IDE products, 300 Borlanders are loosing jobs but management has free Golf

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www.sony-ps3.ca/04282006/20/angelina_jolie_and_brad_pitt_eyeing_a
tlas_shrugged

us.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/
<shrug>I'll believe it when I see it.
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John Jacobson

Delphi Developer

2006-05-04 01:02:18 PM

Re: Revenue from IDE products, 300 Borlanders are loosing jobs but management has free Golf

Roddy Pratt <"roddy at spam fritter dot com">writes
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Devco's 180 people is about 12% of the total workforce (if 300
is 20%), yet the IDE license revenues (according to Serge's reading) are
around 30% of the total.
That's an interesting set of numbers.
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Roddy

Delphi Developer

2006-05-04 03:48:20 PM

Re: Revenue from IDE products, 300 Borlanders are loosing jobs but management has free Golf

"Oliver Townshend" <oliveratzipdotcomdotau>writes
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>That's a little long for a comedy.
It worked for Lord of the Rings. Or at least it felt that way in the last
hour of the third movie.
Lord of the Rings wasn't meant to turn out as a comedy.
- Roddy
 
marc hoffman

Delphi Developer

2006-05-04 06:22:05 PM

Re: Revenue from IDE products, 300 Borlanders are loosing jobs but management has free Golf

Captain,
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That would be a LONG wait--oh, maybe that is *why* you've decided to wait.
<g>
got me <g>
Seriously, though, it seems it is currently scheduled for production in
2007 according to IMDB - although I am amazed to see that the same guy is
slated to write first the screenplay for the amazing "Cat's Cradle"
(which, admittedly, will probably turn into a "Day after Tomorrow II"
stinker of a movie) and then "Telemachus Sneezed^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HAtlas
Shrugged".
Talk about covering the probably two most incompatible authors ever ;P
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Oliver Townshend

Delphi Developer

2006-05-04 06:27:36 PM

Re: Revenue from IDE products, 300 Borlanders are loosing jobs but management has free Golf

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Lord of the Rings wasn't meant to turn out as a comedy.
Well neither would Atlas shrugged. Having read it, all I can say is that
its so long its meaning is just pounded into you a hundred times. The only
book of hers I actually enjoyed was "We the Living" which actually has a
story to tell.
Oliver Townshend
 
Pete Goodwin

Delphi Developer

2006-05-04 08:35:20 PM

Re: Revenue from IDE products, 300 Borlanders are loosing jobs but management has free Golf

Run for the hills! We're all doomed!
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Florent Ouchet

Delphi Developer

2006-05-04 10:24:09 PM

Re: Revenue from IDE products, 300 Borlanders are loosing jobs but management has free Golf

Hi,
Some information are missing: is this cut in jobs only located in the US
or will it affect offices around the world.
I feel more and more anxious about Borland France.
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Florent Ouchet
 
Allen Bauer

Delphi Developer

2006-05-04 10:37:17 PM

Re: Revenue from IDE products, 300 Borlanders are loosing jobs but management has free Golf

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So, more importantly to most of us, how many of those 180 positions are
being cut? Hopefully not 20%?
None. DevCo folks are isolated and running separately at this point. This
is a from a product/marketing/sales perspective. Due to SOX rules, the
financial aspects must remain intertwined until the divestiture is complete.
It is also my understanding that the Seque portion was "right-sized" prior
to the close of the deal.
For the record as well, DevCo is *hiring* and has many openings available
today, and will have many more when the separation completes.
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Delphi/C#Builder/C++Builder Chief Scientist
Borland^H^H^H^H^H^H^HDevCo Software Corporation.
blogs.borland.com/abauer
 
I.P. Nichols

Delphi Developer

2006-05-04 10:39:56 PM

Re: Revenue from IDE products, 300 Borlanders are loosing jobs but management has free Golf

"Florent Ouchet" writes:
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Hi,

Some information are missing: is this cut in jobs only located in the US
or will it affect offices around the world.
I feel more and more anxious about Borland France.
Marco van de Voort posted this reference:
www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/04/borland_jobs_cuts/
"The company is releasing 300 workers, mainly in "go to market" activities,
with plans to shutter offices in at least some of the 29 countries it
currently operates in. Details are yet to be finalized, but closures will be
based on the size and revenue potential for Borland's Application Lifecycle
Management (ALM) business. "
 
Florent Ouchet

Delphi Developer

2006-05-04 11:22:14 PM

Re: Revenue from IDE products, 300 Borlanders are loosing jobs but management has free Golf

I.P. Nichols a écrit :
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"The company is releasing 300 workers, mainly in "go to market" activities,
with plans to shutter offices in at least some of the 29 countries it
currently operates in. Details are yet to be finalized, but closures will be
based on the size and revenue potential for Borland's Application Lifecycle
Management (ALM) business. "
ok, that is implicit :(
Will Devco continue translating the IDE?
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Florent Ouchet
 
Dean Hill

Delphi Developer

2006-05-04 11:27:13 PM

Re: Revenue from IDE products, 300 Borlanders are loosing jobs but management has free Golf

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From the annual report - "Revenue from the IDE products were
approximately
$84 million, or approximately 30%, of total revenue in the year ended
December 31, 2005, a decline of approximately $49 million from 2004."
I blame this exclusively on the shabby treatment and milking that has
occured to the IDE products. I think that management providing a little
more money to the tools could have prevented this massive slide (37% drop
in revenue in 1 year).
Cheers
Dean
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Dave Moore

Delphi Developer

2006-05-04 11:32:18 PM

Re: Revenue from IDE products, 300 Borlanders are loosing jobs but management has free Golf

"marc hoffman" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
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Captain,

>That would be a LONG wait--oh, maybe that is *why* you've decided to
 >wait. <g>
got me <g>

Seriously,(fnord)though, it seems it is currently scheduled for production
in 2007 according to IMDB - although I am amazed to(fnord)see that the same
guy is slated to write first the(fnord)screenplay for the(fnord)amazing
"Cat's Cradle" (which, admittedly, will probably turn into a "Day after
Tomorrow II" stinker of a movie) and then(fnord)"Telemachus
Sneezed^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HAtlas Shrugged".

Talk(fnord)about(fnord)covering(fnord)the(fnord)probably(fnord)two(fnord)most(fnord)incompatible
authors(fnord)ever ;P

Marc, I have taken the liberty of running your post through a discordian
descrambler to show everyone what you actually wrote... *grins*.
Best,
Dave
 
Craig Stuntz [TeamB]

Delphi Developer

2006-05-05 01:55:58 AM

Re: Revenue from IDE products, 300 Borlanders are loosing jobs but management has free Golf

Guys, please take Ms. Rand to off-topic....
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