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● 12.17.08

●● Did Novell Quietly Sack Over 100 People?

Posted in Interview, Novell at 12:44 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Novell is shrinking

NOVELL, Inc. (Nasdaq:NOVL), a worldwide leader in selfishness, backstabbing and hypocrisy. closed some offices across Europe recently and the last question in a new interview with Volker Smid goes like this:

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Like many IT suppliers, you recently cut a number of jobs. Are any further redundancies likely?

There will be no more redundancies. We are running a workforce of 4,000 down from 4,100 despite making two acquisitions in the meantime. We have looked at the economy and have done what we needed to do.

We mentioned Volker Smid before, especially because he calls Microsoft “a partner” [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. He was appointed President of Novell EMEA [1, 2] almost exactly 2 years ago. █

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Novell had an axe to grind

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