This explains a lot - aside from sales sucking, Dell needs to make the various software businesses more attractive to outside investors as it needs to raise $$ for the upcoming EMC deal. The big haircut in software won't be the last.
Expect all kinds of pain if you are in a "non-core" part of dell.
http://m.economictimes.com/news/international/business/dell-eyes-10-billion-asset-sales-ahead-of-emc-merger/articleshow/49638456.cms
Cutting John Swainson... Yep DELL getting in to bacon business!!
yep. the other rumor besides layoffs in software and them potentially selling off various entities is that the dell services(what was perot systems) is being sold to wipro.
wipro is a major in-sourcer of h1b visa job replacements, basically like Infosys. so they will cut even more heads at perotsystems(not that there are many to cut after the last several years).
The old cow ain't screaming yet.
Cutting John Swainson would save $$ millions
This will suck big time