Monday that it figures that 99% of employee stock options are sucking wind. It claims it needs it to keep irreplaceable staff working on multi-year R&D projects, although it's hard to know where they would go right now. The options of senior staff aren't included and the gambit would be cost-neutral. Google and AMD have taken similar action. Intel also said it was going to freeze the salaries of senior management and halt contributions to employee retirement funds and stock purchase plans. The vote should go down in May.rock333 wrote: At the IaaS Cloud layer virtualisation is going to be essential to allow the self service attributes, all painful and slow to do with physical hardware. Moving up the stack to PaaS and SaaS the use of virtualisation may, as you say, be less required if you put lots of smarts into your software. A lot of software does not have those smarts and by utalising virtualisation of the layers below can manipulate existing software architectures to have more cloudy attributes through automation (eg run load balancers and deploy more servers automagically).
Over time, as new investment in software at...
Mar. 18, 2010 02:11 AM EDT
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