Open source and Java feel first Sun cuts

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 23, 2009 5:49 PM EDT
The Register; By Gavin Clarke
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Sun Microsystems axed 1,300 employees on Thursday, the first wave in a series of planned redundancies intended to cut head count by almost a fifth. The company said in a statement it had cut workers across all levels, including employees in vice president and director positions. It did not say who'd been cut, but The Reg has learned that the departed include individuals working on and around some of the company's highly touted open-source projects.

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