VMware to cut 900 jobs

Re:VMware to cut 900 jobs by kyrra on Monday January 28, 2013 @08:20PM (#5131822)

I don't believe these people are being fired... at least not all of them. Take a look at a report from 2 months ago[1]. 600 people from VMWare are working on Pivotal, if those people don't count on VMWare's books anymore, that would be a reduction in headcount.

Also, the Chicago Tribune[2] article is better than the BizJournals one. One key point in this article is that by the end of 2013, they expect to hire 1000 new employees.

This all sounds like shuffling around of people and trimming a little fat, and has nothing to do with VMWare possibly doing badly.

[1] http://www.thevarguy.com/2012/12/05/vmware-confirms-pivotal-...

[2] http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-vmware-resu...

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Re:VMware to cut 900 jobs by kjackson2012 on Monday January 28, 2013 @08:30PM (#5131849)

In another article, they mentioned that they would be hiring as well, so they expect total headcount to be 1000 more than they have right now.

They are doing a lot of expanding after they bought all the land around Hillsview, so it would be kind of bad if they started to cut really deeply, a lot of their buildings would be empty.

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Re:VMware to cut 900 jobs by xorgar831 on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @01:15AM (#5132664)

Although Pivotal was being led by Martiz, who has left the company.

https://blogs.vmware.com/console/2012/12/the-pivotal-initiat...

EDIT: Although he's now the Chief Strategy Officer at EMC, so maybe that's good. http://www.emc.com/corporate/emc-at-glance/exec-team/index.h...

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