Linde layoffs software#

Linde layoffs software#

Until that day, it will continue development of the Second Life Viewer software the company released an alpha version of Viewer 2.1 on Thursday.

In the future, Linden Lab hopes to release a version of the service that runs in a browser, with no download required. Elements of Second Life that are amenable to the Web will be made Web-accessible. Linden Lab will continue to develop those services. This year, it bought Avatars United, a social medium for online gaming - sort of Facebook for avatars. A year and a half ago, it bought XStreetSL, a marketplace for selling virtual Second Life goods on the Web. What of the future? The company is focusing on Web initiatives. 'The business is healthy, we have strong balance sheet, and we're well-capitalized.'Д«ut is Linden Lab profitable, I asked? Kingdon responded, 'As a private company, we don't release financials.'Д®very other time I've asked Linden executives if the company is profitable, they've said it is.

'One of the things I want to underscore: Second Life will end the year with record revenue, I'm pretty sure record users, and records in terms of user-to-user transactions,' Kingdon said. Also, Linden Lab is combining its product and technology teams into one, and is focusing support on self-service online tools and outsourcing, Kingdon said. Layoffs were motivated not by cost-cutting, but rather by a desire to consolidate software development in the US, where teams in close proximity can work better together, Kingdon said. Concurrency, or the number of users logged in simultaneously, is declining, and Version 2.0 of the Second Life client software, which debuted in March, failed to achieve the spike in user uptake that Linden Lab hoped, according Tateru Nino, who covers Second Life for the blog Massively.Д«ut still, Kingdon maintains Second Life is doing well.