Thread regarding CA Technologies (CA Inc.) layoffs

Though you counted it as many departments, headcount of 5-6 of them together will be less than headcount of one single product.. so this math is not going to work.. no matter how many cuts happen in other departments, major cut will happen in engineering side within one year to save big while losing small..

@VL7Qgjd-lad that assumption about mainframe sales is completely incorrect. One of the reasons that the mainframe has been kicking *** the last couple of years is because of an aggressive competitive replacement campaign against BMC and Compuware. That battle is heavily dependent on pre-sales to go onsight, setup the replacement, and walk the customer through the transition. It is already a light org, with some products only have one or two experts to cover the entire global. I don't the ones I work with ever go home. They're on the road every week. Losing them would be devastating to new sales.

I’m speculating but regarding presages, I don’t know how much Broadcom is counting on new sales anyway.

I’m guessing Mainframe isn’t getting tons of new customers and renewals are the most important focus. I also suspect that’s the same for other mature, profitable products like SSO and PPM

This quarters Earnings should be a preview but would expect new sales to plummet anyway, and that will only get worse as sales teams get gutted, customers lose confidence and engineering talent gets fired or leaves.

CA products with strong new sales are candidates for spinoff anyway because most are in high profit margins - if they were we’d actually be successful :-)

Architect on the PS side know their fate and already have their marching orders informally.

But how do you sell unless you have presales? This is a frank question.

Presales can't get a 90% cut because 90% of them already went to competitors following the Broadcom announcement.

I heard a rumor presales is facing significant cuts - like 90 percent.

GIS is probably at least 75 percent gone and 25 percent transition - once desktop, email and share point are migrated most other apps get shut down. Don’t need many folks to actually migrate assuming Wipro is on the other side to drive migrations.

I've heard that PreSales is pretty safe. Thinning sales means they need lots of support. Again, just a rumor (I'm not in Sales nor PreSales).

what about presales? what about the BTAs (business tech architects)? any clue/rumors?

Reduce services costs is so easy. You can drop 2 or maybe 3 levels of management without any impact on business.

Octane and his CFO have said multiple times that services is gone as quickly as they can sell it or shut it down. A 1% margin doesn't fly in Broadcom.

My money is on tier 1 & 2 support getting outsourced.