Is RIM planning 2,000, painted, chief operating officer announces retirement

Research in motion BlackBerry maker has today announced details of their costs to reduce plans mentioned their last quarterly result for the first time. 2000 Jobs are on the chopping block over the 200 or so, which have already been let go. On top of that, RIM chief operating officer Don Morrison of his retirement announced. Morrison had since the beginning of this year medical leave been, and the decision does not return follows other high level departures from marketing and product management. RIM reduces the redundancies amount of 17,000 employees, and they expect, happen more "rationalisation" at a later date.

Although staff cut in bureaucracy can actually reduce the right places and speed up workflow, one could argue, that with co-CEOs Jim Basillie and Mike Lazaridis at the helm, is still fresh strategic orientation, they urgently need missing BlackBerry is to compete. RIM financial balance sheet is still good, despite the lack of future prospects, are looking for, so cut staff is not so much to saving money. It's easy to take use of the term "Rationalisation" as a Euphamism RIM to pink slips left and right to brushes, but if many open letters of past and present employees are no note, RIM can less cooks in their various kitchens. RIM is still active in their product development through new acquisitions to invest; If money, we would not really, I think close, see RIM they were picking up new company at the rate.

Right now, RIM has to get a lot of products out the door. All this summer, followed the fat 9900 / 30, torch 9810 and torch 9850 / 60 by the curve of 9350 / 60 expected. Forget not the LTE, WiMAX, and HSPA + versions of BlackBerry textbook tablet. Although RIM OS 7 devices things like augmented reality apps, near-field communication and faster processors will introduce, they best meet mid ranged Smartphone competition and the huge 4-inch dual-core phones, which we see from other manufacturers, are probably not implement delle.

Regardless of whether these dismissals actually optimize something, do not we will end up until early next year, know when the first QNX-powered dual-core-BlackBerry smartphones are expected to. RIM is an update for their staffing situation while its Q2 results provide in September.

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