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‘BRUTAL’ CITRIX, TIBCO LAYOFFS HIT THOUSANDS OF EMPLOYEES: SOURCES

WADE TYLER MILLWARD

JANUARY 10, 2023, 05:12 PM EST

‘It’s a sad day for a company that pioneered the VDI (virtual desktop
infrastructure) market. It’s a terrible day, with a lot of good Citrix employees
with families and kids leaving the company,’ one source says.



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Cloud Software Group—the parent company of cloud vendor Citrix and enterprise
applications vendor Tibco—Tuesday began widespread layoffs, with thousands of
employees throughout the organization getting pink slips, sources told CRN.

“There are thousands of employees being let go,” said a source close to Citrix,
who spoke on condition of anonymity. “It’s a sad day for a company that
pioneered the VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) market. It’s a terrible day,
with a lot of good Citrix employees with families and kids leaving the company.
This is brutal.”

Another source, who did not want to be identified, also said that thousands are
being let go in a round of layoffs the person called the “largest Citrix has
ever had.”

The layoffs include much of Citrix’s commercial sales organization as well as
some channel-facing employees, sources said.

[RELATED: Citrix Parent Company Names New Channel Chief, Introduces Partner
Program Changes] 

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Several CSG employees posted about the layoffs on LinkedIn. For example, Mark
Simmons, lead NetScaler sales engineer at Citrix, wrote, “Like so many others at
Citrix, I was caught up in today‘s massive restructuring. I have been associated
with Citrix for the past 22 years, either as a full-time sales engineer or
contract master instructor. I wouldn’t trade those experiences for anything. Now
I‘m looking forward to the next chapter in my career.”

Shawn Hohn, a territory manager for Citrix, also shared that he was one of the
employees impacted by the cuts.

“I write this post to share that unfortunately, I have been one of the many
impacted by the layoffs at Citrix this morning,” wrote Hohn. “If you or anyone
in your network have any open roles in Account Management or Inside sides,
please reach out! Thank you in advance for any connections, advice, or
opportunities that you can share.”

Citrix employees who took to LinkedIn to say they were laid off from the company
also included a networking, application delivery and security specialist for
Florida and Georgia commercial field sales; a senior sales engineering manager
who’d worked with Citrix for about 15 years; a software engineer; and an
enterprise application delivery and security specialist, among others.

Another person familiar with the layoffs said that sales, channel sales
engineers and education sales roles were also cut.

Employees of other vendors took to LinkedIn to post about job openings those
affected by CSG’s layoffs could pursue, including IGEL, Aisera and Seesy.


CSG SHIFTING MORE ACCOUNTS TO THE CHANNEL

The layoffs come as CSG moves to focus directly on its top 1,000 enterprise
accounts, leaving mid-tier and commercial accounts to be supported and serviced
by solution providers, sources familiar with the situation told CRN.

“This [strategic shift] could be really good thing for the channel,” said one of
the sources. “With Citrix focusing on the top 1,000 accounts, that leaves the
channel with the opportunity to service the remaining accounts. This could
provide some explosive growth for Citrix service providers.”

That said, it is going to take some time for the aftershocks of the layoffs to
wear off within the partner and customer community the source said.

“When there is this big a shakeup, it takes a while for things to shake out,”
said the source. “But anytime you have this much change and transformation,
there is an opportunity for the channel to make money.”

CRN has reached out to CSG for comment.

The changes come four months after the acquisition of Citrix in September for
$16.5 billion. Investment firms Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast
Capital—an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management—took Fort Lauderdale,
Fla.-based Citrix private, merged it with Palo Alto, Calif.-based Tibco and
created a new parent organization, CSG.

In November 2021—two months before Vista and Evergreen unveiled their
acquisition plans, Citrix had said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission that its board had approved a restructuring plan that
included “the elimination of full-time positions,” with $65 million to $90
million earmarked for employee severance agreements. It’s unclear if Tuesday’s
layoffs stem from that pre-acquisition plan.

The source said that the Citrix acquisition and the impending acquisition of
VMware by chipmaker Broadcom represent “a major bellwether change” in the VDI
market.

The virtual desktop industry has gotten more competitive for Citrix and VMware
as cloud giants such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have rolled out
similar services and turned to third-party vendors to keep users within the
hyperscalers’ environments.

The tech industry as a whole has been hit by a wave of cutbacks as the sector
grapples with inflation and rising interest rates in the U.S. and concerns over
a possible global recession. Salesforce, Cisco, HP, Intel, Elastic, Aqua
Security, AvePoint and N-able are some of the vendors to announce cuts recently.


UPCOMING CHANNEL PROGRAM CHANGES

Earlier this month, Citrix named Ethan Fitzsimons its new channel chief and
promised a “more predictable” and “more profitable” partner program, set to
launch on March. 6 for Citrix partners. Tibco partners will not be affected by
those changes.

“It’s about how do we allow [partners] to do their job faster, easier, simpler,”
Fitzsimons told CRN. “How can we be simpler to work with? More predictable. More
profitable. And really remove any of the inhibitors—in most cases, artificial
inhibitors—that were slowing down the pace of business that we could do with our
partners. … We allowed ourselves to become a little bit too complex when it came
to our partner program. … That’s feedback that I received from our partners
consistently.”

Mike Strohl, CEO of Concord, Calif.-based Citrix partner E360—No. 111 on CRN’s
2022 Solution Provider 500—told CRN in an interview that some CSG people he has
worked with have been impacted.

Nevertheless, Strohl said that he is still confident in Citrix’s channel
leadership, including Fitzsimons; Hector Lima, CSG’s executive vice president of
field and channel sales; and Mike Fouts, CSG’s vice president of global service
providers.

“The core DNA of what makes Citrix Citrix lives within those guys,” he said. “I
fully believe in what they’re doing.”

Strohl said he is happy with the upcoming partner program changes he has heard
about from Citrix.

“We’re most excited about the Citrix [Service Provider] program [changes] and
what we can bring to market collectively with our customers,” he said. “There’s
actually been a lot of work done on Citrix’s part to make that a much better and
more-aligned go-to-market [motion].”

Steven Burke contributed to this story.




Learn More: Cloud Channel Programs | Cloud Infrastructure | Cloud Platforms |
Cloud Software

WADE TYLER MILLWARD

Wade Tyler Millward is an associate editor covering cloud computing and the
channel partner programs of Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat, Oracle, Salesforce, Citrix
and other cloud vendors. He can be reached at wmillward@thechannelcompany.com.


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