The company Sun Microsystems will reduce staff by one and a half thousand people, reports IDG News. This step is part of the restructuring program Sun, announced in November 2008.
According to analysts Wedge Partners, essentially reducing the affect sales and service Sun. They will be laid off up to half staff.
Sun representatives confirmed the information about the impending dismissals. But stresses that under the reduction podpadut staff in all divisions of the company, including top managers.
Sun's restructuring program during the economic crisis, a reduction of 15-18 percent. It is expected that this will allow the company to save between 700 to 800 million dollars a year. At the end of January 2009 was dismissed from the Sun 1300 people.
Company Sun Microsystems is one of the world's largest manufacturers of servers and workstations. Sun is also known as the developer of operating systems, Java platform and the party to project OpenOffice.org.
Note that the economic crisis has forced many IT-companies to begin the restructuring, which includes a reduction in staff. In particular, the dismissals announced Microsoft, Google, Intel, IBM and Nokia.
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