It's been several years now since we had to toss Strobe for cheaper
alternatives. Compuware was way too slow to recognize their pricing
structures were totally out of line with the falling $/MSU prices in
mainframe hardware and with competition with other platforms and priced
themselves out of our market.
An ISV that provides useful but non-essential software can't
consistently price their products as the most expensive ISV products in
the shop and not expect to draw the attention of cost-conscious upper
management whose first question will always be "Do we really need this?".
Bob Shannon wrote:
No one replied so I guess no one cares. I'm surprised.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 1:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: STROBE Layoffs
Compuware is closing the Strobe development office in Cambridge, MA,
effective October 30. All but four developers will be terminated. The
surviving four will work from home and development will move to Detroit
(where there is no one who knows the product). Testing, QA, etc. will
also be terminated. There will be no severance package.
Carl (not good news) Youngren
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