Here is a quick not on Spark, so not layoff related... Heard they will give Spark another 2 Qs. They are desperate to see if it will gain traction. RT probably knows that the clunky thing can be easily displaced by a $75 white board & a camera phone. He's just neck deep into it (or too embarrassed) to back out now.
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Spark's biggest problem is a lack of vision and leadership. No one person or group will take responsibility for decisions and direction, inevitably leading to management by a number of essentially focus groups. Do you know how hard it is to develop a product when 10 different PMs are all insisting their features have the highest priority? Ridiculous. Matrix management to duck responsibility.
It could be turned around but someone needs to start saying no occasionally.
I've never seen somebody flog a dead horse for so long. Give it a rest RT. Just let it go. You tried, but failed. Have some dignity and stop chucking good dollars after bad. Spark is a disaster and time-of-death needs to be called on it. Simple as that.
I had a recruiter contact me saying that the Spark team was hiring. I wasn't too thrilled with the idea of going back to Cisco, but work is work and there's not a lot of other jobs in town for my skill set and not moving is aways a plus so I sent in my resume.
Never heard back, so it makes me wonder if they're truly hiring or not.
Spark is a tough one. Hard transition. Different model. There is nothing else though. Without Spark collab is Avaya.
The sooner Spark is flushed down the crapper the better. If that spells the end of RT at the helm of collaboration then that is not necessarily a bad thing either in my opinion. He has already set himself up with a fallback nest in the IOT space anyway but not making any great waves there either from what I can see.
How to draw on an ipad over webex:
http://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector/
https://rednectar.net/2014/03/15/using-an-ipad-to-improve-webex-presentations-especially-the-whiteboard/
Soon to be joined by Tetration and ACI. Billions in the crapper.