Sun Microsystems is going to cut 6,000 jobs throughout its global workforce affecting all the major economies in the world, news from Bloomberg. The company, more well-known for its creation and promotion of Java/Open Source initiatives than their real business - selling high performance servers, is no-doubt struggling at moment. Server orders are expected to slip amid current economic turmoil. Within IT industry Sun is not the only one who has announced job cut, Dell and HP all followed as well. But guess who has not yet? The "evil of all" -- Microsoft.
For Sun's Java initiative, the company over years has failed to make any solid revenue out of it. The technology is revolutional driving understated hundreds of thousands of uni graduates into programming. But Sun is not a non-profit organization, things they do they need to make profit out of it. Failure to do so is a failure of their business model. Now they slash 6,000 jobs world-wide and that is 6,000 families seriously affected world-wide. At Microsoft on the other hand, at least the families are safe for the time being. Who contributes to the society the most? You have your call.
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