Stratus Technologies Reviews

Lost its vision, trying to re-position in market

Recent glowing reviews, following several negative ones, are highly suspect and has motivated me to comment and set the record straight. Acquired by private equity firm Siris Capital in 2014, it is only a matter of time before Stratus is either acquired or it's assets sold off. The company is living off a captive install base of aging proprietary systems. Sales of newer ftServer systems based on Windows/Linux/VMware have been sluggish. Software initiatives, EverRun and Cloud, have generated no significant revenue and are poorly marketed, or even understood. Competitive offerings from bigger industry players will continue to erode Stratus' fault-tolerant niche. Long term customers will eventually migrate away from aging legacy systems. The culture is horribly political and anti-social. You won't find a company baseball team here!! Under staffing in all areas also hampers the company's ability to grow and adequately support existing customers and partners. This is a no/low-growth company. Many long-term employees are simply hanging on until retirement. New employees get frustrated and generally don't stick around very long. That's the REAL story, unfortunately.