another engineer

Motorola: Dead Company Walking?

Mot can still turn around. As said multiple times in the comments, two of the three mot divisions are profitable. That diversity will keep Mot in business until the handset division gets its act together. I don't expect Mobile Devices to match Nokia or Samsung margins, but they can make a profit in the handset business. I hope that MDB can at least break even in the last half of 2008.
As for cost cutting, there are large numbers being layed off, but I don't hear anything about executives offering to reduce their compensation. Mr. Brown has in fact been given even more personal hours on the corporate Jets... I believe Steve Jobs makes $1 per year in salary. Of course he is compensated in stock and is rewarded when Apple does well. Where is this kind of personal risk from the Mot Management? Instead, they sit back and suck down money with no real risk of failure.