Thank you Darryl. I (and I'm sure others on the list too) appreciate your
response. It's what I wanted to hear, and is far more informational than
rwr's "it's a dot-com thing."
-Russ
At 10:10 AM 6/6/2001, Darryl Green wrote:
>Needless to say I was on the phone post-haste when I heard the announcement.
>Their lay-offs were focussed on Sales and Marketing redundancy that their
>business-unit structure resulted in (I surmise, and this is only personal
>supposition, that at one time they may have been thinking about a spin-off
>of their Internet business -- if so, those days are gone)
>
>Nonethe less, I can safely say that:
>
>This will have no effect on the operation of or customer support levels for
>our certificates (there were no operational lay-offs of which I am aware).
>It is business as usual as far as Tucows certs are concerned.
>
>Happy Selling
>Darryl Green
>Product Manager Web Certificates
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Tucows Inc.
>Phone:(416)538-5461
>Fax: (416)-531-5584
>96 Mowat Avenue
>Toronto Ontario
>M6K 3M1
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russ Goodwin
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 11:22 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Entrust Tech. in trouble?
> >
> >
> > Entrust is OpenSRS/Tucows partner for providing digital certificates, so
> > here's a little news that I haven't seen on the discuss list yet.
> >
> > There was this announcement from Entrust last week:
> > TUCOWS.com partners with Go2Net's Authorize.net and Entrust
> > Technologies to
> > offer complete e-merchant solutions
> > http://www.entrust.com/news/files/05_30_00_298.htm
> >
> > And then yesterday there's the positively-spun announcement that
> > Entrust is
> > laying off 400 workers, restructuring, closing some of its offices, and
> > taking a $400 million charge:
> > http://www.entrust.com/news/files/06_04_01_748.htm
> >
> >
> > Doesn't make me feel good about offering my clients Entrust certificates.
> >
