Opera sends 90 out the door

Re:Opera sends 90 out the door by avar on Monday February 18, 2013 @09:14AM (#5238347)

    > One could argue that Opera now are in
    > more need of 25 years old iOS developers,
    > that 40+ C++ specialists.

One could, but would one not be assuming that their 20+ years of experience wouldn't more than make up for whatever platform-specific skills they'd need to train on which could surely be picked up in less than a year?

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Re:Opera sends 90 out the door by rplnt on Monday February 18, 2013 @09:41AM (#5238463)

Assuming they want to use their skills that way.

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Re:Opera sends 90 out the door by dagw on Monday February 18, 2013 @09:48AM (#5238482)

Indeed. At least from the article it sounds like everybody was given the option to move to other projects, mainly client side mobile and desktop development, but a significant portion of the engineers turned down the offer.

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Re:Opera sends 90 out the door by dottedmag on Monday February 18, 2013 @12:23PM (#5239342)

It would make up, but it would also come with a hefty price tag.

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