Plexus Computers Inc has laid off 20 of its 278 employees as it cuts down on its stand-alone Unix-based computer offerings and starts to push its Extended Data Processing system. The 20 members of staff to go are from engineering, sales and field service operations dedicated to Plexus’ Unix offerings. Plexus says that a company of its size has only limited resources and so has to put them into areas that offer the greatest possible return. Although Plexus admits that some of the 20 employees could have been kept and retrained for the XDP side the company believes that hiring new people will be more effective. The company adds that it will be hiring replacements for all the 20 lost.
