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Марія БровінськаThat's Life
10 December 2024, 09:07
2024-12-10
In Russia, 11 top managers of a company that tried to create an analogue of Microsoft Office were fired. A product created by more than 1,000 specialists turned out to be unwanted by customers
The founder of the Russian company «New Cloud Technologies» («My Office» brand) Dmitry Komissarov complained that 11 top managers were fired from the company, including the general director, commercial director and technical director. «My Office» is engaged in software development, and its flagship project was to become an import replacement of the Microsoft Office analogue.
The founder of the Russian company «New Cloud Technologies» («My Office» brand) Dmitry Komissarov complained that 11 top managers were fired from the company, including the general director, commercial director and technical director. «My Office» is engaged in software development, and its flagship project was to become an import replacement of the Microsoft Office analogue.
As The Moscow Times writes. the appointed trio of directors suffered losses of 10 billion rubles during the two years of management, and the main shareholder suffered the main losses. At the beginning of 2022, Kaspersky Lab became the main owner of the company with a share of about 61%.
The company’s revenue for 2023 fell from 3.3 billion rubles. up to 1.8 billion rubles. with the growth of the general market by 35%. According to the results of this year, the turnover will not increase again and will remain at the level of 1.8 billion rubles, and instead of profit, as it was before, for 2023 the My Office company brought 5 billion rubles. damage This year Komissarov has a similar forecast.
«Only one of the three largest customers extended their contracts; there is no new client with a check for more than 200 million rubles; the number of employees increased from 700 to 1,100; the roadmap for products has not been completed, the speed of execution, despite 350 new developers, has fallen, not a single stable release of the mail system has been released in a year and a half,» Komissarov said.
State companies continued to buy Microsoft products, despite the request of the President of the Russian Federation, and to switch to Russian software from 2025.
From January to October of this year, they purchased Windows operating systems for 7 million rubles, and Microsoft Office packages for 3 million rubles. At the same time, the «remains» of Microsoft products available in the country, outdated versions of 2019 and 2021, were purchased.
In March 2024, Microsoft announced the blocking of access to its cloud services and the popular office suite Office 365.
We will remind, at the end of August it was reported that the Ministry of Finance of Russia has developed a draft law, which provides for the introduction of a complete ban on state purchases of foreign software.
At the beginning of September, Russian companies faced the disconnection of subscriptions to Microsoft cloud services. In May, it was reported that the Microsoft Corporation began blocking subscriptions of Russian companies to its cloud services.
