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Becoming Irrelevant?    • submit to reddit Sun Microsystems
announced today that it would be laying off 6,000 employees (18%
of it’s workforce) in an attempt to better realign itself with
“global economic climate”. The company will be focusing on:   •
Application Development (?)   • Systems Platform (Solaris,
Glassfish, Java, etc.)   • Infrastructure Development (Server
Hardware, etc.)  With Sun’s stock (JAVA) falling from 20 at the
same time last year to around 4 today it isn’t much of a
surprise that the company has had to reel back costs and rethink
some strategies going forward.  You have to wonder if the
Java/Open Source-everything strategy Schwartz pushed is paying
off or just making the open source fol