Thread regarding CA Technologies (CA Inc.) layoffs

Education?

Will education survive?

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Hahaha hahaha why are there so many post for a thread on education when whole freaking products are being slaughtered..... mo r ons!

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Post ID: @2yzg+Vki5Zsr

If your products are mainstream like Red Hat, Microsoft, VMware etc, then yes, education is important, and there is demand from the customers as these skills are transferable and less likely to become obsolete. For CA ...lol...probably less than 5% of the products are mainstream

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Post ID: @2sed+Vki5Zsr

In support we are seeing less and less of customers who care about education. They have some intern or low paid flunky "administer" the products and all they know how to do is call support and ask us to do it for them

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Post ID: @1pmk+Vki5Zsr

I totally agree education is probably the most important a customer can make when they purchase software, sadly I don't think customers agree with that, and broadcom doesn't seem to agree with that.

All of this is just speculation. Who knows, they may value education significantly more than I think, and I hope they do.

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Post ID: @1eju+Vki5Zsr

@Vki5Zsr-1dw

Yes, CA has an Education department.

They sell trainning for customers that dont know how to use CA applications.

Training can be self web based, virtual with Instructor online or on customer site.

Partners by default use the Education portal free of charge, with few exceptions.

Customers need to pay.

Even if Broadcom decides keep mainframe and other products, would not worth keep the Education for at least the retained products?

One Education mantra is "Customers trained are likely less call to support".

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Post ID: @1umx+Vki5Zsr

CA has an education department?

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Post ID: @1dwc+Vki5Zsr

"I'd say all the support services were living off the ineptitude of engineering. "

Can I get a "hell yeah"?

I work in tech support (Spectrum), I probably wouldn't have a job if our developers knew what they were doing. 90% of my job is helping customers deal with c-appy design or work around known bugs that engineering can't fiigure out how to fix (or doesn't want to bother).

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Post ID: @1zyw+Vki5Zsr

@Vki5Zsr-1uig You seem to be too smart to be in the Education team. Time for you to make a move to a substantial career. All the best!

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Post ID: @1itp+Vki5Zsr

I'd say all the support services were living off the ineptitude of engineering. Some BU's worse than others. But when product related annual RFR budget was blown company-wide in the first quarter of the fiscal year, that doesn't tell me we had great engineering.

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Post ID: @1uig+Vki5Zsr

This is not funny any longer....

Why don’t all support services understand that you are living off breadcrumbs of the Enggneering.

Anyway Education was a big joke at CA especially Partner Education. Probably the folks running LDP were a lil sane. But NO Education will be one of the first ones out of the door.

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Post ID: @1glp+Vki5Zsr

Does education make money?

Will education make money on the products that Broadcom keeps?

If the answer to either of those questions is no, then the answer to your questions is hell no

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Post ID: @1ujv+Vki5Zsr

Doubt it they not part of R&D

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Post ID: @1iyk+Vki5Zsr

No, thank God. CA's education was awful, I could get higher quality learning from cheap YouTube videos.

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Post ID: @1odk+Vki5Zsr

No way

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Post ID: @1xno+Vki5Zsr

LOL. No.

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