#product

Expecting announcements soon on divestiture, Lorenzo keeps showing slides on it but no context to which product lines.
Thoughts?

Is it true BlueXP is being ki-led? Does that mean the team will be laid off?

Opps... the FDA is not happy when splatter and disinfection of touch screens cause setting changes.

Even when the rate of occurrence is acceptable in the original design specs

Go Figure

You know what's funny? When items in a grocery store get recalled, people talk about it, they don't buy it again, avoid the brand like the plague. When Ford issues a recall notice, what the fu-k do people think?

Wonder if it is actually heading anywhere? Or all talks and …

You have a very short window sir to do the right thing until the new CEO comes and sees right through your wall of snake oil and misdirection. Your presentation onstage at the internal kickoff was an hour of wasted time I will never get back. You showed Google AI and Notebook LM and pretended it was a technology forward development. It was not sir. We all saw through your charade.

If you want OpenText to succeed, you need to:

• perform deep product consolidation. Go from 1000 products down to 150. We need one product for each segment we want to play in. Why do we have content server, documentum and core content? Why do we have multiple faxing solutions in BN?
• The products you choose to keep need to be completely rewritten from the ground up using cutting edge architecture and memory safe development languages. Putting a legacy product inside a container doesn’t make it containerized. We need a real automated orchestration layer than can handle availability, capacity in real time by itself. Patching should be done in the middle of the day by scaling and moving without impacting customers.
• Security and privacy need to be designed into all of the products from day 1. As a European developer, I cringe every time someone tells me we will comply with GDPR. Our products are not designed for security and privacy by default. As governments become more demanding, we will be left in the cold. The time is NOW!
• Fire 50% of your direct reports. Most of your VPs and directors are incompetent and would be unable to find a job anywhere else. Most have been here too long and don’t know what modern software architecture looks like.
• Understand that AI is not a product and will quickly become a feature. Slapping AI on something (like Ollie AI) doesn’t make it modern or desirable. Where are your real product managers thinking about building world class functionality? Aviator is nothing more than a Google AI wrapped in OpenText clothes. It is NOT innovation. It is not unique and customers aren’t buying it.

This is from the main thread:

• "The rest of product is functionally useless, just another layer of management hot air that enables the single worse problem Kroger always had - not listening to its technical people." (Anonymous, Post ID: @qg+1k3eddae2)
• "Now those product folk speak on our behalf but don't know anything technical. It's a joke." (Anonymous, Post ID: @q0+1k3eddae2)
• "We have a 1 to 1 ratio of admin people and the people who actually do the work." (Anonymous, Post ID: @pv+1k3eddae2)
• "Product in other orgs has made sense, not at Kroger. it starts with the leaders…" (Anonymous, Post ID: @px+1k3eddae2)

I recently found out they'll be doing more layoffs at KTD and probably GO soon. I know for sure CIS and Product will get hit hard. I hope you get your severance!

https://www.at.ford.com/us/en/home/news-media/news/2025/8/bronco-roadster-silver-lake-sand-dunes.html

These Broncos should be ready for production. Only if Ford can build it reliably. I am not sure about the quality, but it's cool looking.

Welp, there goes the neighborhood!
Some marketing and product but not sure who else

What sellable products has F5 developed internally/organically in the last 10 years?