Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Enterprise
management software vendor CA has axed 31 staff at its Melbourne
security R&D Lab in what it is calling a restructuring move.
Melbourne is one of CA's largest centres for international R&D
outside of the US and the move amounts to a downsizing of about 20%.
With revenues of more than US$3 billion and 15.000 employees
worldwide, CA is a top 10 global software company. The Melbourne
software centre downsizing, while not massive in scale, is a severe blow
to the local development industry.
Australia is responsible for
nearly 20% of CA's total worldwide research in
the security field. The two Melbourne labs at one stage employed over 150 developers
working on security software in the anti-virus, identity management,
access management, and web services
security fields.
A PR spokesperson for CA told iTwire in an email that before the latest job cuts there were 103 staff at the R&D lab. The cuts will leave the lab staffed by just 72 workers.
It is the identity management and access
management area that has been targeted. According to CA, three
successive acquisitions resulted in duplication of R&D skills in
the field of identity and access management.
Over the past six
months CA has acquired 3 US companies in the identity and access
management fields - ID Focus, Eurikify and Orchestria. CA obviously
believes these companies have superior technologies to that being
developed in its Melbourne facility.
Even with CA's best efforts to put a positive spin on the axing, the outlook for its spurned development staff looks gloomy.
CA
says that unless suitable redeployment options are found, affected
employees will be offered a comprehensive outplacement service to help
them find new jobs, and will leave with severance packages.
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