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Sun to Cut 5000 Jobs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the less-than-ideal dept.

codemachine writes "In one of Jonathan Schwartz's first acts as CEO, Sun Microsystems has announced that they are cutting up to 5,000 jobs over the next 6 months. The company plans to sell property it owns in Newark, Calif., and to exit leases at a site in Sunnyvale, Calif. Analysts will be pleased that Sun has finally taken steps to cut costs, but what will this mean for the future of the company?"

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  1. Nobody Cares by gentimjs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nobody cares about what happens to the workers who get fired. You're talking to (mostly) Americans here... Unless its thier job being cut, they just dont care... :-(

  2. R.I.P. by ThePhilips · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hats off. Pioneer of microcomputers is passing away.

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    All hope abandon ye who enter here.
  3. Re:The company?!?!? by otis+wildflower · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's one thing not to have empathy, but quite another to be actively offended by it in others.

    Empathy isn't offensive. It's simplistic empathy used as a tool to push an agenda which is. Given how much of that there is in the world today, it's understandable that people can get riled by it.