Borland International Inc is to cut another 125 jobs, 15% of its workforce, in the latest restructuring at the still not stable Scotts Valley, California software development tools developer. The cuts come in the wake of expectations that it will make a fiscal second quarter loss of $0.32 to $0.36 per share. The company attributed the losses to the slow rate of its transition from desktop markets into corporate markets. The cuts should save $15m to $17m a year and help the company return to profitability in fiscal 1998, said chief executive Whitney Lynn. Sales for the quarter are expected to be about $36m, down from $53.8m this time last year. The reorganization is intended to simplify the company’s operations and to eliminate some overlapping functions. And late Thursday, PC Week reported that Anders Hejlsberg, chief architect of Borland’s Pascal-based Delphi development environment, is the latest of its key employees to be enticed away by Microsoft.
