Sun Microsystems to cut 5000 California jobs; inks India education deal

[Bluebear]

YESTERDAY:

Sun Microsystems India Pvt. Ltd and IT trainer NIIT have launched an initiative to expand the technology horizons of India's large student population by introducing specialized education and training programs on Sun technologies. Students emerging from these programs will further grow the Java and Solaris developer communities in the country.

The two companies signed an agreement to this effect here today. Vijay Thadani, the chief executive officer of NIIT Limited and Bhaskar Pramanik, managing director, Sun Microsystems India, signed on behalf of the two companies.

Through this alliance, NIIT will have access to the latest Sun technologies, tools, technical resources and curricula on the Java and Solaris platforms. Sun will enable NIIT to offer a range of customized programs to a broad spectrum of students through NIIT's widespread network of IT education centers. The initial launch will focus on the Sun Java platform while Solaris will be addressed later this year.

Dr. Karie Willyerd, vice president & chief learning officer, Sun Microsystems Inc, said, "The shortage of skilled IT professionals is one of the most pressing issues in the IT industry and in businesses all around the world and the demand for IT professionals with up-to-date skills, far exceeds the current and projected supply. Academic institutions need to help their students acquire skills on the latest technologies so they can better meet that demand and succeed in their careers. Sun recognizes the efforts of NIIT in the field of IT education and the value NIIT has created by reaching out to IT professionals."

http://www.crn-india.com/breakingnews/stories/64523.html
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TODAY:

SAN FRANCISCO - Computer server maker Sun Microsystems Inc., whose revenue has declined four years in a row, said Wednesday it planned to cut 4,000 to 5,000 jobs in an effort to return to consistent profitability...

Sun executives expect the plan, which also includes selling real estate and exiting leases, to save the company from $480 million to $590 million, once it is fully implemented sometime around June of next year...

The company also said it planned to sell property it owns in Newark, Calif. and to exit leases at a site in Sunnyvale...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060531/ap_on_bi_ge/sun_microsystems_jobs

[Deja Q]

1. There's a shortage so they CUT 5,000 jobs? BULL SHIT.

Or are they trying to increase the amount of workers in America by letting them go?

What a fuckin' load. x( x(

They say Americans don't want to be educated. Yet prices continue to skyrocket and then we hear about THIS.

May India turn on the US, just like how China is going to. :( What's left to say when you're ditching your own for someone else? And I fear they are going to. And when America is isolated, how will the American citizens be made scapegoats (again) at that point?!

[Bluebear]

2. It's so interesting juxtaposing two news stories.

I did it in 5 minutes with no journalistic background. What's so hard about that for our media to do the same?

[Bluebear]

5. 1mk

[tjwash]

3. The handwriting has been on the wall there for the last couple of years.

I quit Sun after 10 years because I saw this coming.

[Bluebear]

4. I quit a job after 16 for the same reason.

Not from Sun but from the same "pensions, bad; outsourcing, good" mentality.

[area51]

6. "The shortage of skilled IT professionals..."

MY ASS.

I'm one of many unemployed techies. There's plenty of unemployed techies who can take those jobs. :mad:

[politicat]

7. Yes, but are you willing to work for a tickle, a squirt, a kiss and the

promise that they'll still respect you in the morning?

If you're willing, you can live like a prince in India on $20K a year. But you have to be willing to abandon all that you have here.