“Even though he was adamantly against any layoffs, Sun
Microsystems’s new CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced today the
company plans a net reduction in headcount of between 4,000 to
5,000 positions. That would be an 11 to 13 percent reduction in the
company’s worldwide headcount of 37,500.“The cuts would come in what he dubbed ‘non-core’ businesses.
The number is a net reduction in light of planned increases in
headcount in certain ‘high value’ accounts, such as its Sun Fire
servers and StorageTek tape backup businesses…”