Now What?

Mon, 26 Apr 2004 23:59:59 -800

As the world now knows, Sun is laying off 3,300 people, merging the three
server divisions, and has cancelled the UltraSPARC V and all related projects.
All this turmoil going on inside the high-end server division means that
my chances of landing a job there are nil--not that anybody really wants
to be around in the face of pending layoffs. But my co-workers might not be
so bad off--most of them will get moved to the next project. I won't.
Secondly, the layoffs mean that the people I was talking to inside the Solaris
group can't make any offers. So that's a rather large part of why I took the
IBM job. It's a good job in a less-expensive region. Who could ask for
anything more?