Fate uncertain for ex-Sybari workers at Microsoft
C|Net | at | by Mike
A month after closing its acquisition of Sybari Software, Microsoft is weighing the fate of roughly half of the security software maker's work force.
East Northport, N.Y.-based Sybari, which employed roughly 280 people worldwide before the Microsoft acquisition, will retain only 150 workers, with the remainder under review, a Microsoft executive said Wednesday.
"Sybari still has 282 employees," Janet Cho, a senior manager in Microsoft's human resources department, told CNET News.com's sister site ZDNet Germany. "We will keep 150 of them. With the rest, we are in negotiations. This is no mass dismissal--we try to be very cautious with all these people. We want to keep as much people as possible and integrate them into Microsoft."