According to several blog posts, Opera opens a new office in Poland. Robert Blaut suspects that the company from which new Opera employees were laid off is Simens BenQ.
First of all, congratulations to those folks! Secondly, congratulations to Opera – it’s a sign of your growth, isn’t it? 🙂
I’m wondering about those two models – Opera’s one and Mozilla’s one. Opera is employing so much more people, while Mozilla is still rather understaffed in my opinion. Opera just employed 23 people with a single move, Mozilla is carefully deliberating every step. It seems to have no relation to market share through, nor the revenue of both. I’m curious if Opera really need that many people aboard to compete with peer-production model (I can’t believe that they really need 23 people just to port a browser on to new platform, no matter what Nokia said about their sources ;p), or that they simply can afford it and prefer to prepare their human resources for something bigger.