Looks like the tech sector is taking another hit. Sun Microsystems has announced a further reduction of 1,500 workers from it’s payroll worldwide. This represents an 18% reduction in staff.

This reduction in force is in addition to some 1,300 employees laid off earlier this year. Whether they are acquired or merged with IBM doesn’t change the fact that the total layoffs for Sun during this economic downturn is now between five and six thousand.

Sun Microsystems manufactures computer hardware, and software such as java, and mysql.

UPDATE
Sun was acquired by Oracle on 4/20/2009

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This story was posted on Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 for the following departments Tech, layoff