Citrix Spinning Off GoTo Collaboration Business, Laying Off 1,000 People (cio.com) 43
itwbennett writes: In addition to the decision to spin off the GoTo collaboration products business into a new company, the initial results of Citrix's operations review, also involves a 'realignment of resources' that is expected to eliminate about 1,000 full-time and contract roles, over and above the effect of spinning off the GoTo business. Most of the layoffs and refocusing of resources are expected in November and in January 2016.
And later they will need 1000 H1B's (Score:5, Interesting)
And later they will need 1000 H1B's and say we can't find us workers.
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Re: And later they will need 1000 H1B's (Score:1)
They will want someone who can code in Java, C#, python, PHP, ruby, Go, Erlang, Fortran, HTML5, perl, COBOL, AngularJS with 10+ years experience in each, and fluent in English, Mandarin, and Russian with an MIS degree. Pays $60k
great timing... (Score:1)
Everybody loves getting to spend extra time with the family during the Christmas holidays. And January is always a great time to start looking for a new job.
Any bets on what percentage of their yearly salary the top ten executives at Citrix will get for coming up with this idea of 'realignment of resources'? Over or under 100%?
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Ok, serious question. Is there ever a situation in your (anyone here) mind where laying off a bunch of people is the correct decision?
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Ok, serious question. Is there ever a situation in your (anyone here) mind where laying off a bunch of people is the correct decision?
If they are lawyers, accountants, or MBAs?
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And would you mind training these people? And then, to receive your severance cheque, would you also sign this document stating you will be available anytime in the next 2 years to aid with any problems they might have?
Thanks, we really appreciate your assistance in this difficult time.
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Off the top of my head:
When a company is getting out of a line of business and no longer needs the skills those people brought.
When a project downscales and there's nothing new for everyone to do.
When a company looks at their workforce and realizes they've got too many of one skillset and not enough of another.
There are legit reasons, but often it's about firing your skilled local (and more expensive) workforce and bringing in cheaper replacements. Shuffle everything around under the guise of a "restructuri
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Ok, serious question. Is there ever a situation in your (anyone here) mind where laying off a bunch of people is the correct decision?
Yeah. If the company is exiting the market in question and the laid off workers skills will no longer be needed, period. As opposed to laying off 1000 workers here and hiring 10,000 in India/China/________
tut! (Score:2, Informative)
Why is there a comma after review?
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samzenpus is desperate to get in contact with you, but you are refusing his advances. He knew you would fall for his stupid editing errors.
It's a dependent clause (Score:3)
It's a dependent clause.
The "also" applies to "the decision", as opposed to "the initial results".
The sentence is quite the run-on, and it's awkwardly constructed; however, it's grammatically correct.
A less awkward construction would be:
"Citrix's operations review initially resulted in a decision to spin off the GoTo collaboration products business into a new company. In addition, it has also motivated a decision to institute a euphemistic (in the opinion of the editors of CIO.com) 'realignment of resource
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It's a dependent clause.
No, it's not.
The "also" applies to "the decision", as opposed to "the initial results".
No, it doesn't.
The sentence is quite the run-on, and it's awkwardly constructed; however, it's grammatically correct.
No, it's not.
Stop trying to put lipstick on a pig, willya?
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Dependent Clause: In linguistics, a dependent clause (or a subordinate clause) is a clause that provides an independent clause with additional information, but which cannot stand alone as a sentence. Dependent clauses either modify the independent clause of a sentence or serve as a component of it.
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Because, it, was, actually, submitted, by, William, Shatner...
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I like how you assume that because a female candidate left with a smile on her face, they probably asked her easy questions, cuz, you know, chick.
Super-classy.
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In that scenario, wouldn't *the boss* be the one likely to be wearing the smile?
Re: LOL (Score:1)
Sounds to me like you got your answer, your parents did waste their money on a CS degree.
If they're laying off the people that generated (Score:3)
one different release version of the GoToMeeting app per week per person, it's probably not a significant loss. I can do with as few as, say, 52 different instances of the same app on my machine. I don't need 152, or 1,052.
They Had Employees? (Score:3)
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Don't forget Citrix Xen, the shoddiest commercial repackaging of a freeware technology that I've ever seen. Windows-only management for a Linux based virtualization technology? What were these monkeys *thinking*?
Now Citrix can stop demo'ing GoToMeeting! (Score:3, Interesting)
It seems like Citrix was frequently attempting to upsell anyone that would listen on how GoToMeeting was the solution to every problem. Instead, it completely derailed an evaluation Citrix CloudPlatform.
We had asked for a cloud control panel and hypervisor system based around Linux and Citrix assured us they had strong experience in that area. What I found was that the Citrix CloudPlatform product seemed half-baked where even stepping through the quick-start setup guide resulted in a log full of java null pointer exceptions and didn't function correctly for activating VMs.
Then the Senior Sales Engineer of Citrix Cloud Platform lets me know this is a great time to show how Citrix GoToMeeting could save the day! He demanded I go to a GoToMeeting invite to have them show I was only a couple clicks away from having everything I could ever want from CloudPlatform (but couldn't just tell me where in the documentation or knowledgebase I could just find those couple clicks myself). At that point I pointed out that GoToMeeting wouldn't work on my GNU/Linux desktop which resulted in a condescending reply of "we usually do this from a Windows machine (like your desktop) where you run the GTM viewer."
So, I got to re-iterate to the Senior Sales Engineer of Citrix Cloud Platform that I really do know what OS my desktop is running and it isn't Microsoft Windows. I also found out that basic GNU/Linux skills such as using SSH public/private key authentication or multi-user use of GNU Screen. So, instead we spent the rest of the week discussing how there was no plan for Citrix to port GoToMeeting to Linux. Once they finally stopped being condescending pricks pushing that Windows can be the only true desktop and that they would be willing to support Citrix Cloud Platform without having to run Windows, the evaluation had completely derailed.
In retrospect, it is really scary we even considered a company with such poor GNU/Linux skills and support for a complex cloud configuration based around GNU/Linux. But I'm glad they are now considering getting some focus.
Re:Now Citrix can stop demo'ing GoToMeeting! (Score:4, Interesting)
Maybe they bought VMware desktop (Score:2)
Maybe they bought VMware desktop and found that they could reduce headcount by having fewer people manage the hardware. (Ducks.)
Actually, I'm only half-kidding here because I once saw a guy sell whitebox computers to NEC technologies (when they made and sold their own computers) and I had the wonderful experience myself of selling storage technology to EMC (when they had, well you know).
Don't they get cash from SAP? (Score:2)
I know that SAP uses Citrix for their applications, so doesn't the company get enough from them to stay afloat? Particularly given how SAP just rakes in cash based on their certification programs alone.
There is probably too much competition in the collaboration software - WebEx, GTM and just.me
citrix is good at doing things bad (Score:5, Interesting)
Citrix; better than the alternative. (Score:2)
We've moved to Citrix for a lot of our applications. It works, and is a lot better than the alternative. The applications we have moved to Citrix are ALL old legacy applications that are too expensive to replace. So it is essentially a stopgap solution to keep limping along until we can eventually phase them out. In an ideal world we wouldn't use it, in an ideal world we would have planned for and budgeted for replacements. I rarely if ever see an ideal world however.
You're right, users hate it, however the
Not shocked (Score:2)
One problem with Citrix is that their cash cow, XenApp, is getting less relevant. They have a huge presence in health care and other sectors where they can't assure endpoint security, have lots of shared machines/terminals, and have a lot of regulatory compliance issues. However, Microsoft keeps improving RemoteApp which can be had for the price of a CAL rather than a CAL plus Citrix seat. In addition, more applications are migrating to browser-based HTML5 type systems that don't require weird client-side p