Not sure what the numbers are but the consensus seems to be this is the end of Predix!
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I'M PICKLEEEE RICKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Flannery is a complete pu--y, in way over his balding head. If he had even a fraction of a gonad he would have canned Ruh, who is squarely where the “buck stops” for the consistent failures of GED.
Its been an interesting journey! A grand experiment.
"Build our own cloud"
"Build our own PaaS"
"Buy a stake in CF"
"Oh AWS is our strategic partner"
"AWS is too expensive"
"Host it in a co-lo"
When does MS step in? Commercial teams being dragged down because No One wants APM. Bill are you listening?
Digital will never go anywhere until they break the annual cycle of new strategy, new executives, new organizational structure. That problem rests squarely on the ghost at the top who probably hasn’t stepped foot inside 2623 more than 10 times last year.
Leadership not gonna go, we can. I am sure lot of skilled are leaving soon - in next two months to help leadership indirectly! There is no reason for work here anymore as no meaningful work, not good incentives, not good leadership, continued chaos. We should expect more surprises of bad news for overall GE as well. Unless you cant find better opportunity there is not reason to hang in here. Move on.
Any word on who got whacked this time? Heard product marketing consolidated again. Getting LinkedIn pings hourly now. Feel for anyone still stuck in the spiral. Execs from top to Director need to go. Just poor performance and zero leadership in any pocket.
Why is Channels and Partners still there? Our strategy now to giveaway our IP
@Sic2EI4-1tpp He sure didn't act like he has cancer. Not trying to sound cold hearted but the fact is the lack of management vision and execution affected many lives. I agree with you that the last nail has been driven.
y'all know patrick franklin has cancer right? I'd be a little easier on the guy.
sounds like all the smart people who were left in the building got the boot yesterday. GED just put the last nail in its own coffin.
@Sic2EI4-1onr PF is Patrick Franklin (not a What). But he might as well be a thing since as a person he didn’t do much. The only thing I could possibly agree with is calling the Code Yellow but lifted it too quickly without actually fixing anything. Either he didn’t really know anything or caved in too easily. Either way he tried to save his job rather than doing the right thing that someone having the stature of an officer should have had the courage to do.
If Eddie was a pragmatist, then why did he lay off the entire platform design technology team, an experienced group of front end devs, the most needed skill to make apps be “killer”, and the rarest skill in SR?
@Sic2EI4-1ebr - Either you’re one of those legacy Meridium folks or you’re drinking the kool-aid. If Eddie were a pragmatist, he wouldn’t eliminate some of the folks from the Apps side that also got eliminated with this brush.
Meridium - while having customers over the past 20 years, didn’t grow beyond O&G and Chemicals. While it has built an application catered to needs of users in those industries, there is no differentiating technology or content. The only “content” is the licensed content from APT and it was a pure Services play. Take a generic database and customize it anyway you want (not a true SaaS product). Which is why it is so difficult to upgrade any of the legacy customers with new releases.
While GED definitely shouldn’t have led with platform, GED APM had applications with differentiated technology and content (for eg analytics content within BUs, SmartSignal and others). APM is not a billion dollar market (at least not today). You need a good scalable and easy to consume/deploy “platform/Foundation” to connect all assets and data, and eventually upsell APM, OPM and other value added apps by leveraging analytics technologies applied to the data being brought over from customers.
Customers have fixed budgets and to gain maximum wallet share, you start with basics and then upsell value added apps - not the other way around.
You can tell me STFU all you want, but the proof is out there. If Meridium is so great as a product and if they have the best commercial strategy, why do they have less than $20MM of average revenue over the past 20 years? Why haven’t they grown beyond O&G downstream and Chemicals??
Think of Compliance as an app. The Nuke industry should have been the easiest to enter but they have zero customers!
Keep drinking the kool-aid from Eddie and his team...
What is PF and how many are impacted?
Eddie is far from a politician. He’s a pragmatist. Nothing against the great colleagues who have been impacted, the full blown platform simply is not a differentiator any more. Poor leadership that led with technology and not centered around the customer has gotten us here. Immelt and Ruh should shoulder all of that. I wish Eddie and the go forward team luck.
P.S. Meridium was red not blue. It was a successful entrepreneurship that won because customers were successful. If we all move forward with Big Blue with that focus over the technology, we can all win. Otherwise STFU.
Liars and politicians and dumbfucks run this show. Goodbye San Ramon. Thank you Bill Ruh for wasting everybody’s time.
Confirmed from bozo Ruh’s email that PF is out...
Unfortunate part - the politician Amos takes over. Anyone not without Meridium “blue” blood - start looking for opportunities elsewhere (if you haven’t already)
I think they are going to close the San Ramon office altogether within a year or two. Apparently, no one wants the platform and software being developed there, even for free. However, if they are planning to refloat it at some point, anything new will probably come out of Bangalore, since they can "fail fast and move on" so much more cheaply there. Spectacular bungling of the complementary niche market to GE's industrial resource manufacturing, and yet Ruh and his useless toadies still have jobs, I'll wager. I wonder if Patrick Franklin has a new facial expression yet.
@1dlx - that’s the height of spinning a story about “layoffs”. The engineers you’re referring to were/are part of App Foundation and we’re working on something useful. If you’re saying that what they are building should be in Predix, then that is the most serious indictment of the Predix organization in that they have delivered st in all these years. Everything called Predix is either an AWS or CF service, but degraded 10x due to stupid decisions on security and architecture. All Predix remains is just a brand name (and not a very valuable one at that; it’s damaged with the premature GA release of Predix platform that no app developer could do st with)
They are adding people to the Predix team, not laying off people.
Honestly to say. Predix is a junk and joke.
downloaded much of the critical source code ? it's illegal.
Why do we need to worry about Franklin and Ruh type bozos?? They have their golden parachutes and are already well taken care of.
Impact is across multiple Predix PM and Engineering teams as well as multiple App Foundation PM and Engineering teams. With a broad brush, some good talent is wiped out and now whatever good talent remains won’t be supported (and either leaves or will suffer similar fates in future rounds that are a certainty)
Whats happening to Franklin or Ruh - any one know.
How many and which teams/sites?
The people that are left to build Predix are either completely inept or vastly inexperienced and unprepared for the task of building industrial software. Good luck with that.
What were the official #’s. Best of luck to anyone impacted.
But the fat cats with no vision, strategy or leadership skills survived...impact was only felt by some of the useful folks (not saying all of the ones impacted were useful; but they still didn’t deserve this).
Layoffs should also be a 360 process. Why should only EBs and SEBs decide??