The Downsized » milpitas http://www.thedownsized.com A journal for the temporarily reduced Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:38:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Sun Microsystems to layoff workers http://www.thedownsized.com/2009/04/sun-microsystems-to-layoff-workers/ http://www.thedownsized.com/2009/04/sun-microsystems-to-layoff-workers/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:46:29 +0000 The Downsized Staff http://www.thedownsized.com/?p=247
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    • ]]>     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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