Hi,
I can't say anything about Sun employees working on OOo/SO being
fired, but I do know that some left the company by themselves for
whatever private reasons.
armin
Andrew Brown wrote:
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.
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