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By: Blackpool

Blackpool — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:25:08 +0000

How Kodak does anything is how they do everything. Badly. They are a company destined to go bankrupt.

By: Dmitry Shultz

Dmitry Shultz — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:48:04 +0000

I’ve worked in Israel on Brisque 4/5, worked on Director (Brisque to Prinergy integration), was relocated to Vancouver in 2004 where worked 2 years on core futures of Pandora 2.7+ and 1 year developing (the correct word is rewriting) Workshop 4.

Knowing the products and people from Hertzelia and Willingdon offices I can tell – there is nothing Israel team can’t handle relating to the code and functionality (and there is nobody from MDA !

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By: Tom Bird

Tom Bird — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:02:22 +0000

For goodness sake every one needs to step back for a moment and get a reality check.

Prinergy is the jewel in the crown for Kodak and for the pre press industry. It out strips every other workflow around and it will be the major driving force behind Kodaks Digital print revolution. What the critics fail to mention here is that Kodak have kept, and are increasing their ‘Customization’ development team who are revolutionizing customers workspace.

Would Audi or BMW get rid of their best selling model? No, they would improve it with slight modifications from year to year and give its audiences what they love, a reliable powerful products that can be relied on.

So production moves to Israel and China….Israel was the Country that gave us Whisper and Brisque, two of the best products in pre-press history.
And what intelligent company would not use the far East to manufacture products these days?
I think you will find some of the biggest names in the world have production out there and have survived this dreaded recession because of such moves.

Redundancy is never nice, Ive had my fair share of it, but it also brings out the killjoy in people who only see their side of the story.

By: Baildonory

Baildonory — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:52:46 +0000

I cannot believe all of the negativity surrounding this announcement. OK, so Kodak are continuing to go through a restructuring exercise. For those that still haven’t noticed, the world is not in a great place at the moment,. All companies, from the 10 man shop, to the large corporations are having to make radical changes to their business plans in order to survive. Kodak are no exception. Nothing you guys say can change the way that Kodak runs their business. You can vote with your dollars and euros and no longer purchase hardware and software. But are Kodak any worse than the other vendors in the market. Change is not always a bad thing, but sometimes it is inevitable and can be for the good. The product will have to be supported for at least seven years, if it is dropped and further development ceases, although that appears unlikely if you take Jon Bracken at his word. Let’s stop getting bent out of shape and see what happens. Long live Prinergy!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:30:45 +0000

Thus ends the era. Perhaps the damage started by the MDA mafia has run to the natural conclusion. What goes around comes around, eh? Any one remembers the Israel visit by BC team when Creo purchased Scitex? Play that scenario in reverse.
Cheers and good luck to all.

By: stimpy

stimpy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:20:18 +0000

The software team in BC was considered to be the “last bastion” of the Creo culture. The departure of Judi Hess earlier this year seemed to be result of an irreconcilable clash between Kodak management and what Creo had wrought. I expect Israel and China are filled with management much more able to work UNDER Kodak than the BC people, with their meritocratic and flat corporate structure Ms. Hess attempted — and ultimately failed in the end — to maintain.

I expect a decision to drop-ship in a management team that Kodak Central trusted into the BC team would have been an unmitigated disaster given how independent and creative many of the senior programmers and technical staff in BC are. Best to cut it off and move it to where the teams do what they’re told from Rochester. No surprise, considering how Kodak runs the rest of their operations.

By: AP

AP — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:07:15 +0000

No official statements yet .. but more and more public news spreads …

http://www.bivinteractive.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2019&Itemid=32

By: Gordon Pritchard

Gordon Pritchard — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:22:55 +0000

Ex or soon to be Prinergy developer?
I’ve received a job opportunity for developers in a B2B company. Contact me at pritchardgordon @ gmail (dot) com

Hope it’s OK to post this DJ