The Register: Sun Waves Goodbye to 3,300 Staff

"Sun Microsystems is firing 3,300 staff to bring costs into line with turnover. This will be a bitter pill to swallow for a much restructured workforce which today saw its employer trouser $2bn in a peace settlement with Microsoft.

"Today's news accompanies a poor set of preliminary results for the enterprise systems business, which expects to lose between $200m-$260m in its third quarter ended 28 March, before the bad stuff is added..."

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