Comments on: Sun Puts Tech Layoffs Over 20,000 So Far This Month (Oodle and Rearden Also Join Our Tracker)

By: Sun To Lay Off 3,000 More Employees Amid Acquisition Delays | Your Keepers

Sun To Lay Off 3,000 More Employees Amid Acquisition Delays | Your Keepers — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:39:53 +0000

[...] that it would be cutting 3,000 members of its workforce, less than a year after the company announced plans to lay off up to 6,000 of its employees. Sun blamed the latest wave of layoffs on delays [...]

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Sun To Lay Off 3,000 More Employees Amid Acquisition Delays — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:12:35 +0000

By: Rearden Commerce Raises Another $40 Million, Lays Off 18 Percent | TheUnical Technologies Blog

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:01:43 +0000

[...] go roughly 60 employees from a staff of 335 employees (or 18 percent), following a round of layoffs last November of around 10 percent (or 40 employees) of the company’s [...]

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Oodle Raises $5.6 Million More-- rentBits Rental Marketing Blog — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:19:32 +0000

[...] $5.6 million bringing the total investment to $21.6 million. In November, Oodle laid off 20% of their employees. According to Compete, Oodle has been growing at a rapid pace for the last couple of month. Much [...]

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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:57:07 +0000

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By: Recession Hits Technology Sector Hard & Massive Industry Layoffs | Refuge Design

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:18:36 +0000

[...] for visiting!Since latest August of this year, over 56,000 layoffs have occurred according to TechCrunch but I think it’s much more than what they’ve listed in this chart [...]

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Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:04:36 +0000

[...] and 9.4% in October, following that same flatlining shape that continues to keep us in the media, tech, and well, any other industry, up at night in cold [...]

By: Ex Sun

Ex Sun — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:42:46 +0000

Sun has botched the software business pre 2000 when they all but handed the market to BEA. Since then they have been a non factor in the market.

IBM should buy Sun to silence the nuisance that has affected a few of their larger contracts. Global Services makes more money off Sun hardware sales than Sun does via their consulting engagements.

Sun 2008 = Netscape 1998

By: d

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:24:22 +0000

yes, you are totally right. Now it seems even more likely that they are strapped for cash. My guess there would be a few more round of layoffs and they would go back to their original strength before all this hiring frenzy.

By: phil dewey

phil dewey — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:06:19 +0000

The sad part is that the folks that are staying on for the stock don’t realize that it has become so diluted that it’s virtually worthless. Patrick Grady, who openly laughs about “recapping” his employees out of their hard earned options, has set up only himself and his VC buddies to make out if and when an exit happens (which now looks unlikely).

By: Fred Arkhurst

Fred Arkhurst — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:51:09 +0000

The start up is http://www.linkdem.com

By: Fred Arkhurst

Fred Arkhurst — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:49:23 +0000

I just want to let you know about this new startupsthat is still under Testing.It is coming out with more latest features.

By: d

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:48:43 +0000

i heard they laid off 40% and trimmed salaries by 15%. Lots of hype and nothing else there

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Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:49:17 +0000

[...] the enormous downturn that the US economy is facing, its no surprise that the effects are finally being felt in Silicon [...]

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:30:52 +0000

The EA and Avid layoffs are reflected in the offical Layoof Tracker if you cick through to it, but may not be in the interactive chart above which is incomplete and still being updated.

By: antje wilsch

antje wilsch — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:20:11 +0000

We’ve hired half a dozen in the past month. Can hirings counter-act?

By: Happy Happy

Happy Happy — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:13:15 +0000

@Sramana Mitra
Would you stop spamming. Nobody reads your blog nowadays. Its full of crap. Go back to India.

By: Happy Happy

Happy Happy — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:11:49 +0000

I am so happy. People harvesting should stop. Companies like Sun harvest people they like, but have no vision or mission in sight.

By: Nat

Nat — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:11:31 +0000

I thought Rearden raised $100mil for expansion of company this year,did they over hired or over estimate the value of the company?

Nat
http://www.workersinc.com

By: jon do

jon do — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:46:20 +0000

im not very confident on your tracker..
you keep missing Avid.. 500 on oct 20-30
you also miss EA, 400 or 600 – i have the feeling if you miss layoffs that stand in the hundreds, the actual number of layoffs is much higher than you are counting

By: jon do

jon do — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:40:12 +0000

im one of the layoffs of the past few weeks- some here talk about working for oneself, of course i thought of it. but you need the right conjunction of talents to establish an enterprise most important of which is the chuztpah to scare up some cash

so many of us layed off by big corporations.

getting a job is not the problem, most tech layoffs are smart enough to get one soon enough;

viewed globally this could be a tremendous opportunity to put cross cutting teams to make new startups, if we run an optimization algorithm of talent and ideas this could be an opportunity for innovation

the trouble is that we are simply running around like ants in a flood money representing dry land.

By: LaborLocator.com

LaborLocator.com — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:04:04 +0000

looks like tech workers need a bailout package. majority of these jobs are never coming back.
most should get a look at careers that out side of a keyboard. dont be afraid to get your hands dirty or having to sweat a little bit.

CareersLocator.com – live with it.

By: whoopie

whoopie — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:47:20 +0000

i’m not remotely surprised. there has been a decade-long overinvestment in everything IT and web related that is now unwinding as the winners (google, apple, intel) scale out. with the smaller startups, i’m frankly surprised most of them just haven’t thrown in the towel entirely. besides a brief mention on TC, these companies have no visibility, no users, no hope. this industry is going to get a massive haircut, just like telco got a few years ago as it consolidated. 60k is just the start.

By: phil dewey

phil dewey — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:21:34 +0000

The irony is that Tech CEOs will complain that they have to offshore because they can’t find enough qualified tech workers in the US and American kids are not choosing Math and Science/Engineering training at school. Does John Chambers et al think college kids don’t see what’s happening in Silicon Valley?

By: Mel

Mel — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:58:18 +0000

I mean 30 Rearden employees. People will be leaving quickly.