Sun announced the downsizing of 6000 software business restructuring in three parts

According to foreign media reports, Sun announced on Friday that the company would lay off 15%-18% million people, about 5000-6000 million people.

Sun also reorganized the software business and divided it into three business units: application platform software department, system platform department, and cloud computing and developer platform department.

Among them, the application platform business department is mainly responsible for the Java, MySQL, glassfish application server, and Sun learning services businesses. Anil gadre is the chief marketing officer. The system platform division is mainly responsible for Solaris virtualization and system management software, and John Fowle is responsible for it.

The cloud computing department is mainly responsible for the network.com website, the netbeans development platform, and The StarOffice Office package, where Dave Douglas is responsible.

Sun said the restructuring would bring about $0.5 billion to $0.6 billion, of which $0.375 billion to $0.45 billion will be included in fiscal year 2009. This restructuring can save $0.7 billion to $0.8 billion every year.

From: http://www.022net.com/2008/11-15/431820253278770.html