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Re:Sun announcing up to 6000 (18%) layoffs by crabapple on Friday November 14, 2008 @01:52PM (#364640)
yup. sun is a bespoke tech firm in an era of relentless commoditization.

my guess is that they only cling to life on support contracts from people who are still solaris/sparc shops (which i imagine they are still quite a few of)

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Re:Sun announcing up to 6000 (18%) layoffs by pjjw on Friday November 14, 2008 @04:30PM (#364819)
there are quite a number of them, especially in academia. the support contracts are ludicrously expensive in some departments i work with.
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