In the Australian Computerworld article about there being not enough developers of OOo/Star Office, Ken Foskey is quoted as saying there are now 50 people working on the program for Sun in Germany. Erwin Tenhumberg replies that he wont talk about numbers, but that the ratio is misleading. This caught my eye because three or four years ago, when I first started using the program, one of the German developers told me that there were over 100 poeple employed on it in Hamburg. I can't run down the email right now, but it did appear one one of the public lists. We have been reading for years about Sun making fresh rounds of layoffs, without any specifics. Occasionally well-known and admired sun developers have vanished from these lists. But to go from around 110 developers to around 50 in four years must have had a bad effect on the program.
That quote was very misleading if I remember correctly it was said that Sun provides round about 50 OOo developers and Novell has 10 working on it. But in fact the number of Sun employees who�s work is related directly to OpenOffice.org and/or StarOffice is much higher. That�s because there�s for example QA, Release-Engineering & Tooling, Marketing, etc. which is not counted on that number of 50 but as well very important. On the other hand it may be quite possible that for the 10 people from Novell mentioned those might not all be developers but include QA & others too. But I am not sure.
Kind regards, Bernd Eilers
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