How does the open source movement impact Kronos?
It doesn’t really impact us in any meaningful way. We use open source to some extent as part of our development efforts. You help other companies manage their work forces, but you also run a work force. What do you want your products to do better? We’re looking for products that are easy to use, easy to implement, easy to support. We’re looking for products that have a low total cost of ownership, in terms of what it takes to run and operate the product from a server perspective, an infrastructure and an IT engagement perspective … We need a product that can support a global work force. Tell us about the decision to reduce your work force by 250 in January and how it affected you personally? For me personally it was horrible. It was one of my most unpleasant weeks of my 30-year career at Kronos. What happened was when the world started to fall apart from a macroeconomic perspective in mid-September, we were watching it pretty closely and we knew we weren’t going to be immune from what
