Sun CEO swings a slow-motion ax
Despite widespread rumors, Sun didn't announce expected mass layoffs of as many as 5,000 employees on Thursday. A company spokesperson said that the layoffs have actually been ongoing, in smaller waves, since a May 31 restructuring announcement, and that only about 400 got pink slips. But CEO Jonathan Schwartz, speaking at the Supernova conference, gave a pretty big clue as to where his slow-motion ax would fall in the future. "The era of custom hardware is on its way out," Schwartz told the crowd. That spells bad news, presumably, for anyone working on Sun's high-end Sparc servers, which use a special chip that's incompatible with the much more common Intel processor. Whose jobs are safest? Anyone working on Sun's Solaris and Java software, which Schwartz appears to favor.
Do you work for Sun, or know someone who does? What do you hear about the cuts? 
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