Sunday 3 January 2016

VMware is trying to hire angry employees away from crashed unicorn Good Technology

At least one person sees the end not so happy last crushed unicorn Good Technology as an opportunity.
Sanjay would Poonen, general manager running VMware competitor Good. He has good reach deprived employees of their rights, trying to hire VMware, sources tell us

Remember, good technology BlackBerry has sold his longtime competitor by $ 425 million in September, but as the New York Times reported, many good employees the deal would be altered. Its common shares became nearly worthless while preferred shares of investors won almost all the profits.

This came after a period in which good raised a round which estimates that more than $ 1 billion, filed to go public then abandoned plans to IPO and could not make a sale of CA Technologies for $ 825 million .

Given this history, employees with good stock felt cheated - especially some who had paid bills based on previous tax assessments.

Poonen VMware was listed to the CEO of Good

Poonen wine VMware and SAP computer activity VMware end-user, a unit previously known by a revolving door of senior management resumes.

VMware relatives tell us that before taking the role of VMware, Poonen was on the short list to take the CEO position right too.

Shortly after his arrival, he orchestrated one of the most important acquisitions of VMware, AirWatch buying $ 1.54 billion - a good competitor.

AirWatch and good competition in the "Mobile Device Management" (MDM) market, which helps professionals to protect and manage their fleet of mobile devices like tablets and smartphones.

There is a market in free fall from the big software companies like IBM, SAP and VMware began breaking MDM players and managers of the operating system, such as Apple, Google and Microsoft began to add more features to their offerings MDM.

The largest remaining independent competitor is MobileIron, which went public in June 2014, and fought vigorously for some time, its stock is trading around $ 4 - less than half its IPO price

When it sells well his nemesis Blackberry, many employees do not want to go to work for the company were defamed. "Throughout his career and history have passed on Bon, heaping coals Blackberry," said this person. "You can change the culture of a firm night."

This person said many good employees "are are just tired and want out."

So Poonen and VMware saw their chance. Poonen sent this tweet to make his point:

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