It's getting to become a habit, Adobe laying off hundreds of employees in time for turning the Christmas season uncheery. A year ago, it was 600 workers; this year, another 600. Next year?
But whose fault is it? It's yours, of course. You are not buying enough software from Adobe.
But whose fault is it? It's yours, of course. You are not buying enough software from Adobe.
It's fair to say that there just is not a good time to lay off nearly 10% of your workforce. However pre-holiday layoffs certainly do predict gloomy spirits.
One could easily point at Adobe's added debt from acquiring Macromedia several years past as the need to reduce overhead to stem debt. The fact is that the recent release of it's CS4 line of products was nearly universally greeted with a yawn.
Adobe seems to be repositioning itself with SaS offerings like Photoshop online but as long as their flagship products remain prohibitively expensive they will not gain ground in a post recession America.
- Curt Moreno -
The Kung Fu Drafter
Posted by: Curt Moreno | Nov 11, 2009 at 09:26 AM