Thread regarding Open Text Corp. layoffs

Bye bye OT

Stock free falling now, markets aren't happy with the CEO or divesture

Heading to ten bucks a share

Earnings Thursday could be the end


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@es Totally dependent on SAP.

ECM would be sunk if it wasn’t for SAP selling stuff.

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Post ID: @ey+1kgj0xxzq

@be yes the Core part of OT in the ECM space. There have been some acquisitions but the majority is OT. That product line is performing very strongly and is 50% of our revenue

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Post ID: @es+1kgj0xxzq

If it keeps dropping could have a hostile take over by someone.

In all seriousness, this might accelerate the sell off of Non-core and for a lower price.

This is more likely a leak of poor performance again this quarter.

I'd not be surprised if there is an email acknowledgement of the near 30% drop in the last 30days and what they plan on doing. Maybe another share buy back.

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Post ID: @eg+1kgj0xxzq

Can anyone name a good product actually created by OpenText (not obtained via acquisition)????

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Post ID: @be+1kgj0xxzq

@bb Also, calling the products SAST and DAST was peak stupidity as this is the generic application class.

Previously, the applications had recognized brand names like WebInspect, SCA and the brilliant marketing experts at OTEX completely discarded that.

OTEX is clueless management making clueless decisions.

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Post ID: @bd+1kgj0xxzq

@b9 Sadly so. A few wins, but loads of churn, so the trajectory is down.

Although it wouldn’t have changed much, dropping the globally known Fortify brand name was just a top draw genius level of thinking seldom seen….

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Post ID: @bb+1kgj0xxzq

@b4 Not all products are horrible.

Application Security (formerly Fortify) was industry leader (Gartner "magic quadrant" leader, etc.) for quite a long time under HPE and MF.

I suspect OTEX has ended that.

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Post ID: @b9+1kgj0xxzq

@b7 I don't think you understand the actual sentiment here, pal.

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Post ID: @b8+1kgj0xxzq

It will rebound.
It may take 6 months, but it will rebound.
ride it out people.

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Post ID: @b7+1kgj0xxzq

@b4 We'll take Five Below by storm someday

o7

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Post ID: @b5+1kgj0xxzq

No one wants to buy our products (private equity, big tech, small tech, customers, etc).

Our Business Networks contracts limit us on the data we can use for AI.

All of our stuff would be sold at TJMaxx if we were clothes.

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Post ID: @b4+1kgj0xxzq

This is so entertaining

Send it lower

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Post ID: @ae+1kgj0xxzq

There appears to very limited understanding from board/smt to understand the effects of what looks like a sell off. Selling small chunks, looks so weak to the markets. Sell vertica, stock price drops by circa double the value of what you receive next day to the company. Some really poor decisions in play, the one thing I can say they have got right, is they are going to shrink it, just not in the manner they meant. Embarrassing on many counts.

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Post ID: @ac+1kgj0xxzq

To be fair there’s a major sell off everywhere this week. SAP is down 5% right now and OT is down about the same. What tends to su-k is the others recover and OT tends to take longer to recover.

Not a good day for tech

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Post ID: @ab+1kgj0xxzq

OMG! It was only a matter of time before everyone woke up to the fact that OT is a clown show.

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