About a week ago we mentioned the departure of lots of staff in Novell South Africa. There is now a more formal report which confirms this. It reveals some actual numbers too.

Naidoo reveals the local workforce was required to re-apply for new positions under its revamped structure. This process saw “about 20%” of its old workforce retrenched.

After such radical changes in terms of workforce, it is natural to expect that the level of skills of experience declined significantly. On the brighter side of things (depending on your perspective), Microsoft suffered a corporate executives exodus last week. About 4 highly senior staff departed. Mary Jo Foley has heard from source that there is more to come this week. The latter, however, is a case of "Microsoft bashing", which we do not cover in this site. It's FUD an manipulation that is of particular interest to us, i.e. direct attacks on open standards and Free software. such as GNU/Linux. ⬆