Comments on: Sun to Cut More than 5,000 Jobs http://gigaom.com/2008/11/14/sun-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs/ Wed, 22 May 2013 04:28:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sun in Trouble | GoThinking.net http://gigaom.com/2008/11/14/sun-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs/#comment-152360 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:12:46 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=29247#comment-152360 [...] “It blamed the cuts on the global economic downturn, but I think that like many other companies, Sun is using the downturn as an excuse for what were pre-existing problems, foretold by its stock price, which seems to be in an unending swoon,” suggests GigaOM’s Om Malik. [...]

]]> By: InsideTrack: SGI to lay off workers | insideHPC http://gigaom.com/2008/11/14/sun-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs/#comment-152359 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:31:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=29247#comment-152359 [...] that this follows layoffs of roughly 6,000 at Sun last month, and rumored (though unconfirmed) layoffs coming to IBM’s Deep Computing [...]

]]> By: IT Management » Blog Archive » Friday Links: Layoffs, Piracy, Reputation http://gigaom.com/2008/11/14/sun-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs/#comment-152358 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:28:39 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=29247#comment-152358 [...] Gigaom reports on BIG layoffs at Sun Microsystems. More than 5,000 jobs are being cut. [...]

]]> By: DailyWireless » Blog Archive » Friday Links: Free Wi-Fi? Voice Over Wi-FI? http://gigaom.com/2008/11/14/sun-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs/#comment-152357 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:05:51 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=29247#comment-152357 [...] Gigaom reports on BIG layoffs at Sun Microsystems. More than 5,000 jobs are being cut. [...]

]]> By: The Very Human Cost of Job Cuts - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/11/14/sun-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs/#comment-152356 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:55:43 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=29247#comment-152356 [...] that have gone by, we have seen waves of job cuts – 20,000 or so by some estimates. Whether it is Sun Microsystems, Yahoo, eBay or Jobster — they are all shedding [...]

]]> By: kguy http://gigaom.com/2008/11/14/sun-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs/#comment-152355 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:40:25 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=29247#comment-152355 joke is if you have a job in sun, it is your second job!!!

this layoff is a joke. even in normal times (economic doing good times), sun can layoff 15% easy. same with yahoo. same with citi.

each of these can cut 50% of its bloated staff and still function normally.

]]> By: peter http://gigaom.com/2008/11/14/sun-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs/#comment-152354 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:11:23 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=29247#comment-152354 There are layoffs but I still see thousands of high paying jobs posted online -

http://www.linkedin.com (professional networking)
http://www.indeed.com (aggregated listings)
http://www.realmatch.com (matches jobs based on your skills)

Good look to those looking for work!

]]> By: Michael F. Smith Jr. Lives Here » Blog Archive » Sun starts to wise up… http://gigaom.com/2008/11/14/sun-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs/#comment-152353 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:42:09 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=29247#comment-152353 [...] is announcing today the layoffs at Sun. Sure they are re-adjusting for the new diminished economy but Sun has bigger problems than that – [...]

]]> By: DataStronghold http://gigaom.com/2008/11/14/sun-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs/#comment-152352 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:50:15 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=29247#comment-152352 Sun has had been having a hard time for years, so I completely agree with your statement. Companies like this relied on low priced financing to fund themselves. Now that it is expensive to borrow they can longer fund their bloated operations. This will be a tough time for the economy but in the end it will filter out the un healthy companies.

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