VMware to cut 900 jobs

Re:VMware to cut 900 jobs by digitalengineer on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @02:35AM (#5132834)

When they bought SlideRocket it just fell dead in the water. Hell, I can't even add an RSS feed or embed some HTML. It's one of the top request from clients in the forum. (Paying client here. Sliderocket is great for out account managers doing presentations and keeping versions in sync).

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Re:VMware to cut 900 jobs by jadc on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @02:52PM (#5135860)

Yeah agree that SlideRocket could be super useful.

There was a lot of excitement internally at the company towards using it but after the first few tries, many have given up in frustration and reverted back to PowerPoint.

I don't have any insight into the SlideRocket team to understand this lack of traction. My theory is that this was more of a whim acquisition on the part of the previous CEO and isn't going anywhere because it falls quite outside the core focus of the company.

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Re:VMware to cut 900 jobs by digitalengineer on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @03:12PM (#5135968)

Thanks, I understand. In the 'nice to know' I've made sliderocket presentations that were very well received by compagnies like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and more. I love the way I receive analytics and could track it as they forewarded my presentations. ;-)

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Re:VMware to cut 900 jobs by chris_wot on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @03:52AM (#5133022)

They seem to be following an EMC playbook. Buy lots of corporations, shove them in and hope they work.

Given that EMC has a fair amount of control over them in upper management, is it any wonder they are having, uh, growing pains?

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