• The Four Hundred
  • Subscribe
  • Media Kit
  • Contributors
  • About Us
  • Contact
Menu
  • The Four Hundred
  • Subscribe
  • Media Kit
  • Contributors
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Reader Feedback on IBM Starts Cutting U.S. Jobs Again

    March 15, 2010 Hey, TPM

    You may have heard this from some other sources, but just in case: The Rochester Post Bulletin reported recently that some more cuts were going to occur. . . no comment from IBM, as usual.

    I have heard from an inside source that IBM is closing the Rochester iSeries Briefing center, the Rochester iSeries Benchmarking center, and the Graphics Design center. The current staff has 30 days to find a job in IBM or they’re gone.

    The affected people are among the top iSeries people in the industry and to let them go is the height of folly, but so are the other IBM machinations aimed at the AS/400 and its successors.

    I don’t know what, if any alternative capabilities exist for customer and ISVs. This action is not the first against the benchmark center; a number of months ago some of their top technical people in the benchmark center were “downsized.”

    –Rick

    Bootnote: Since last week’s story ran, Alliance@IBM, the local of the Communications Workers of America union that has been trying to organize IBM for decades, reports IBM has cut 2,901 jobs in the United States through Friday afternoon. That’s 202 more IBMers shown the door since our initial report.

    RELATED STORIES

    IBM Starts Cutting U.S. Jobs Again

    IBM U.S. Job Cuts: Nearly 10,000 and Counting

    IBM Job Cut Tactics in Rochester Questioned in Two Media Reports

    Have IT Vendors Been Hit Harder Than IT Departments?

    Colonizing Endicott

    Reader Feedback on Colonizing Endicott and As I See It: A Novel Idea

    IBM Layoffs Started Last Week; Time for a New Kind of Corporation

    Layoff Rumors Panic IBM Workers; Nothing Confirmed



                         Post this story to del.icio.us
                   Post this story to Digg
        Post this story to Slashdot

    Share this:

    • Reddit
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • Email

    Tags: Tags: mtfh_rc, Volume 19, Number 11 -- March 15, 2010

    Sponsored by
    Manta Technologies

    The Leader in IBM i Education!
    Need training on anything i?
    Manta is all you need.

    Save 20% During Manta’s Back-to-School Combo-Pack Sale!!

    Sale ends October 31.

    130 courses and competency exams on:
    · IBM i operations
    · System Management and Security
    · IBM i Programming Tools
    · Programming in RPG, COBOL, CL, Java
    · Web Development

    SQL, DB2, QueryProduct features:
    · Runs in every popular browser
    · Available 24/7/365
    · Free Student Reference Guides
    · Free Student Administration
    · Concurrent User License
    · Built-In IBM i Simulator

    You can download our 200-page catalog and take sample sessions at MantaTech.com.

    Share this:

    • Reddit
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • Email

    Admin Alert: A Skeleton Checklist for Performing Power i Upgrades Genesta Offers Quick and Inexpensive Voice Enablement for i/OS Apps

    Leave a Reply Cancel reply

TFH Volume: 19 Issue: 11

This Issue Sponsored By

    Table of Contents

    • Old Code Meets New Ideas in Latest App Modernization Projects
    • IBM Cuts Prices for Upgrades to Power 595s
    • Power 750 Servers Running i Get SAP Benchmarks
    • Mad Dog 21/21: The Teahad Pilot, the Sycophant Senator, and IBM
    • Internal Disk Arrays Prop Up Storage Sales in Q4
    • Reader Feedback on IBM Starts Cutting U.S. Jobs Again
    • IBM Wins Kudos for Work in Security
    • Google Jumps Into Business Apps
    • IBM Debuts New Half Rack and BladeCenter E Chassis
    • The Top Brass at Big Blue Do Pretty Okay in 2009

    Content archive

    • The Four Hundred
    • Four Hundred Stuff
    • Four Hundred Guru

    Recent Posts

    • Kisco Adds DUO Support to i2Pass, Okta Up Next
    • Power10 Upgrade Considerations You Need to be Aware Of
    • Eradani Debuts DevOps Suite for IBM i
    • Four Hundred Monitor, October 4
    • This Is Your IBM i Market, And Therefore Your Annual Survey
    • 40 Years Of DB2, But Even More For That No-Name Database Embedded In The System/38
    • API Dev Tool Delivers For Trucking Outfit
    • Guru: TryIT – You’ll Like It
    • It’s Time To Tell Us How It Is And What You’re Doing
    • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 40

    Subscribe

    To get news from IT Jungle sent to your inbox every week, subscribe to our newsletter.

    Pages

    • About Us
    • Contact
    • Contributors
    • Four Hundred Monitor
    • IBM i PTF Guide
    • Media Kit
    • Subscribe

    Search

    Copyright © 2023 IT Jungle