Motorola hardware and software engineers working side by side in new organization
By Stefan Constantinescu on Friday, April 18th, 2008 at 5:35 PM PST In Motorola
According to an internal memo that has been floating around Motorola (NYSE: MOT) since Wednesday, the structure of the new mobile unit that is about to be spun off will merge hardware and software engineers into one group in hopes that this will decrease time to market. Hardware designers and the people who actually write the software that goes on the hardware will be working side by side and reporting to the head of their respective groups.
The feature phone and multimedia product divisions within Motorola will be merged since “distinctions between the categories are already blurring, given the pace of change in the overall handset market,” said Jennifer Erickson, Motorola Spokeswoman.
Motorola CEO Greg Brown admitted that “software is a major weak point for the company’s mobile handsets.” You think?
[Via: Chicago Tribune]
