Listening to Matt Cooke's call right now.
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At CA the services had no lobby nor time to get into the right experience. As mentioned - some are brilliant others not .. still for a software company those are the driving instructors to enable the race. Without services many customer will crash. That's seen for any company. So the question here is more: did CA ever honoured the customer to offer good post-sales and services?
@VScc0r4-keu That literally never happens. New personnel will pick up the work and life will go on, products never just "die" because SMEs leave the company. You must be one of those delusional people who think they are irreplaceable.
Sorry to my good friends in services, we had a good thing going for a while. Start looking out for partners that will be servicing CA software customers, you can probably get a good gig with one of them.
“This is a terrible decision
Broadcom really doesn’t understand software.”
Maybe not but they do understand profits. Services has never brought in any. Let partners take the risk.
This is a terrible decision
Broadcom really doesn’t understand software.
Transition pay but no longer an incentive commission. I can travel, relax and do very little until we get to the crucial dates to divest or escape.
One of my colleagues just said it best. Never has an enterprise software company sold software without a services arm. This will fail, it will fail hard, and it will take some products with them.
I'm in support and we have to help out the services people sometimes when they have problems or questions.
Just like any other part of CA (or any company) some of them are very bright and some of them couldn't think their way out of a paper bag.
Overall though I will miss several services people. And god help us all if Wipro takes over. Support will be overwhelmed with doing services' work for them.
What an id--t whoever that person is that said good riddance to Services. You must be a very poor Sales person selling little or nothing with that attitude. Good luck working with the new Services company, whoever that may be.
@VScc0r4-kbj - yes, having no one to setup and install CA's more complicated solutions will definitely help sales.
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Are you f'ing kidding me? Whose going to do it? Or is Broadcom just dropping those products?
I heard mainframe services will go into mainframe bu and is not part of this announcement? Is that true?
Source: Greg's post on yammer
A buyer has not yet been found. They probably will find a buyer, but there are no guarantees the buyer will want the entire org (or be willing to pay the same salaries). Fortunately, the transitional bonuses sound generous.
Whacked or sold off?
Finally, I thought the day would never come. Good riddance, services people were constantly a pain in the a-- and a bottleneck when it came to getting software installed with customer systems.
Considering how much CA gave back in product and support RFR's this year, no SI should be willing to do it.
Sad but not surprising.