The company “Rosa”, who in June of 2015 won the competition of the Ministry of communications on the establishment of a domestic operating system, has laid off almost all its employees. This is reported by “Vedomosti” with reference to several previously worked in company IT specialists who know about it from employees “Dew”. About layoffs also knows a source familiar with the company’s shareholders.
Ex-employee ROSA Laboratory Sergei Peterkin told about the dismissal of the majority of employees in Facebook. “It was sad after the news about the actual liquidation of the company, which I considered a second home for several years. Employees dismissed in full, what will happen to the products — it is not clear”, — he wrote.
Two weeks ago at NTC dew had about 30 people and almost all of them today fired. CEO Arkady Tagiyev not commented on the possible dismissal, without naming either the current, or last number of the company. He noted that “the company continues to operate and produce products and articles”.
The company “Rosa” was founded in 2010. Its main products — operating systems and Rosa Rosa Desktop Server. Since inception, the company expected to be able to participate in the creation of a national operating system, but the money was never allocated. First, “Rosa” was profitable, but almost immediately began to suffer losses in 2014 have filed for bankruptcy, although officially it was connected with a optimization.
In June 2015 the Ministry of communications announced the winner of the best import-substituting projects. “Rosa” expected to receive $ 2.5 billion for the creation of the operating system. But while the company, which shall allocate 18 billion among the winners, not created. In addition, it is unknown where the Ministry of communications will take the promised money.
As reported by the press, the company funded the former Minister of communications Leonid Reiman, who is in it belongs to the one percent, but he was disappointed in the profitability of the project.
