In a major restructuring of its business, Concurrent Computer Corp is to reduce its worldwide workforce by 240 people or about 7% and will take a $3m charge against its second quarter figures to December 31 to cover the cost. It lost $14.8m in the second quarter last year, but looks for the cuts to save it $12m a year. The cuts come as part of a move to consolidate worldwide sales, service and marketing under one organiszation. It is also forming two product divisions: small systems in Westford, Massachusetts, large systems in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. Each will include its own research, development and product management and planning groups. Small systems will be responsible for future developement of systems running the RTU real-time Unix, and large systems for enhancements to the proprietary OS/32 products and for providing a migration strategy – presumably also to Unix. It also plans to increase its emphasis on strategic alliances and collaborations.
