Sun Reductions Will Hit Open Source Efforts

[Mark Fortner]

Thought this article might be of interest to the readers if the Java Posse list. I was saddened to hear about the layoff to the OpenJDK project members. I wonder what this will do to the Java 7 release train.

Mark

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Sun Reductions Will Hit Open Source Efforts

Internet News: "In late November, many thousands of Sun Microsystems employees got the word that effective January 4, their services will no longer be required. While the cuts were expected, the extent of the layoffs are more far-reaching than might be expected."

[Michael Neale]

Did you forget to include the link to it?

its a bit sad, but perhaps not surprising.

[Mark Fortner]

Sorry about that. I hit the email button in Google Reader and thought
it sent the link along with the article. Here's the link:

http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-12-23-021-35-NW-BZ

Mark

On Dec 25, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Michael Neale <michae...@gmail.com>
wrote:

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[ags]

Mark FYI, I've had the topic as a link in your first mail. I'm reading through gmail though.

Keep well and happy 2nd day of Christmas ;-)

[Tor Norbye]

Is this an old story? I thought we talked about this on the podcast a
couple of episodes ago. In any case, as the article says, the
reduction in force hit "accounting, HR, sales, marketing" as well as
people working on "open source efforts". Take a look at Sun's
software portfolio (Solaris, Java, Open Office, Glassfish,
NetBeans, ...) and tell me how you can do a reduction in force and not
hit open source efforts?

Happy holidays everyone!

-- Tor

[Fabrizio Giudici]

Tor Norbye wrote:
> Is this an old story? I thought we talked about this on the podcast a
> couple of episodes ago. In any case, as the article says, the
> reduction in force hit "accounting, HR, sales, marketing" as well as
> people working on "open source efforts". Take a look at Sun's
> software portfolio (Solaris, Java, Open Office, Glassfish,
> NetBeans, ...) and tell me how you can do a reduction in force and not
> hit open source efforts?
>

Exacty. And the article makes some speculations e.g. about OpenSolaris
... but without sources. It sounds pretty useless.

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