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.
3 replies on “Opera S.A. opens new office in Poland, Wroclaw”
I don’t think you could ever compare Opera to Firefox with regards to the number of people working for these companies. Firefox only makes one kind of browser, just for the desktop. While Opera makes browsers for all platforms, including desktop, opera mobile, Opera Mini, Opera for the Nintendo DS, Opera for Nintendo Wii, Sony mylo, Mokia 770, Archos 604, etc. These are just to name a few. Opera needs these employees to buld and maintain the various browsers. As for whether it could afford it, I suggest you take a look at Opera’s revenue numbers, they’re public.
Daniel: Firefox does not make a browser, it is one of many browsers from Mozilla. The other ones include e.g. Minimo, which you may colloquially call “Firefox for PDAs”.
You can assume that there is a masterplan or “something bigger”. Maybe the real reason is (not trivial) different. When you define human beings as most valuable resource of a company, why should a company not get more resources (hire people). This resource is also a limited one. It’s not a matter of tactics – it’s a strategic planning.