I don't know of anyone who was laid off. Does anyone else? Something about "internal projects" being cancelled, etc., etc. Anyone? Anything happen that you know of?
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Nice DEC history. They ruled computing back in the 80s along with Wang, CV, Stratus
and a ton of others that only us old 🦖 recall.
And Prime and DG
They also had one of the first Hardware based RAID storage systems. I had an Alpha based 4000. The system was a screamer but the tools supplied with the OSF/1 OS were pure junk. It was a 32 bit system and the compilers were 16 bit. Plus, bourne shell was broken and so all my scripts wouldn't run for some reason. I ended up compiling GNU sh and instructing my scripts to run that instead. If they had kept ULTRIX, maybe, just maybe Alpha would have have a better fate.
This old dinosaur had a good consulting gig at DEC!
Nice DEC history. They ruled computing back in the 80s along with Wang, CV, Stratus and a ton of others that only us old 🦖 recall.
DEC also had the ALPHA chip, which was one of the three platforms that the then-new Windows NT supported, along with iNtel and MIPS. Alpha was the fastest and most stable platform for NT at that time. But yes, expensive and overengineered. Required a special boot sector and firmware upgrades were complex to the silly degree.
Still, I was kinda bummed when it, and DEC, failed.
This whole June 1st thing was complete and total nonsense. No one was laid off at all.
I expect LE can't hang on that much longer.
How long did DEC hang around?
Well DEC stock hit its peak around 88, shortly thereafter it started to drop, along with net profit as they had become a bloated top heavy organization. It was around 90-91 they started to have layoffs 92-93 they started to shed some divisions like DECnet and some software. I was caught up in one in 91. That was about when the best and most ambitious people started to flee the coup. By 98 they were swallowed up by Compaq So 9-10 years
DEC was a good company to work for. Their problem was that they never laid anyone off, even the dead wood. they had incredible technology. They made some seriously bad management decisions like selling off their money making divisions, dropping ULTRIX in favor of the notoriously bad OSF/1 (KO hated UNIX, loved VMS and felt it superior, which it was, but ran on a very expensive VAX platform). Overpricing their PC (which was seriously overbuilt, think mainframe grade chassis and components). And like others, Their demise wasn't due to one single mistake or unforced error but a series of them that cascaded. I was't there very long but I really enjoyed my short time there (I got in shortly before they stopped developing ULTRIX, where I was. ULTRIX was great, BTW, better than SunOS in my opinion which SunOS being an excellent OS)
That is a sample, I could go on, but my point is that at some point you hit the point of no return for whatever reason. I don't know if the big 0 has hit that point yet or how long it will take, but I suspect that once LE is no longer in the picture it will fracture very quickly. Just my guess.
How long did DEC hang around?
Just wondering how long it will take for Oracle to die.
the nature of the people jumping ship, the best and the brightest, now that’s a problem.
We have moved from an Alpha org to a devolving epsilon
Sounds amazingly like DEC in the early 90's After they overinflated, they to start contracting. When that started, between the layoffs, and the selloffs, people started to jump ship. The best managers started to leave, leaving the not so best managers. This resulted in really bad decisions being made, forcing yet more people leaving.
OP here. So, I got 4 down votes for asking about layoff information? There have been some pretty insane posts on here in recent weeks, and when I ask about layoffs, which is the purpose of the site, I get voted down?
How many jumped ship?
On the positive side, I have heard of many more promotions this year. How that translates to raises, I have no idea, but those people seam generally happy!
They are bleeding people so fast, there was no need. That in and of itself would not be a problem, but the nature of the people jumping ship, the best and the brightest, now that’s a problem. We have moved from an Alpha org to a devolving epsilon minus semi mo--n.
Many of those we lured away from the competition with stock, after 12-18 months they have figured out the game. They are not winning. They’re off!