Douglas Becker writes:
> Sun has announced mandatory vacation and is planning to shutdown
> the entire week of July 4.
Adobe will do likewise, while HP is asking people to take off one
day per month over the next six months.
Adobe: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5792627.html
HP...: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5722569.html
> My boss has a high level of concern about HP laying off 3,000 people and
> wants to know what impact that will have on continueing support of MPE
> and the HP e3000?
Obviously, I can't even come close to speaking for HP, but here's my
personal take on this, FWIW.
1. Things are tight all 'round. It's not just HP, Sun, and Adobe.
Chances are, things are tight in Pierce County as well.
2. HP is a very large company (over 80,000 employees). 3,000 people
is less than 4% of this.
3. As for continuing support of MPE, Carly noted a couple weeks ago:
"Despite this difficult climate, on a global basis, we're
seeing a slight improvement in our enterprise business. In
contrast with the increasing weakness in the consumer
space, revenues from our enterprise business are expected
to be flat or up slightly on a sequential basis."
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/18apr01a.htm
With MPE being part of the enterprise business, I firmly believe
that it will survive the latest downturn. Whatever plans were in
place prior to the layoff announcement, I anticipate them largely
continuing as anticipated.
It sounds like your boss's concerns are similar to those that many
share regarding Apple Computer. Any time there's bad news, there's
concern for whether or not the company (or in the e3000 case, the
product line) will survive. It will take worse news than this, for
an extended period of time, before such things come to pass.
Then again, I don't run a multi-billion dollar company.
--Glenn
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