This is exactly the kind of RIF I was asking for on Jon's blog the other day.

Well for those who envy Axmark and Mounty and the Skype gang, just do the same.

After some ten to fifteen years, perhaps, you will, if possible, take the money and consider what you want to do as an adult.

And, honestly, I do not think Suns intention was to bye the "persons" but rather the product with its users.

If three years ago a company had $7.4B of cash on hand, but now its entire market cap has

fallen to $4.39B, how much confidence would you have in the management?

At first flash of Jonahtan, we raced down to see.

Standing there on Newark shore.

Waiting for the Sun

Can you feel it now that doom has come.

And its time to live in the scattered sun.

Waiting for the Sun

Waiting.... waiting.... waiting.... waiting....

Waiting for Jon to go- run along

Waiting for Jon to go- hear my song

Waiting for Jon to go - run along

Waiting for you to tell him what went wrong

This is the strangest CEO Ive ever known.

Yeah!

Sun has long suffered from too much ego at the top. They had problems under Scott, but things have not improved under Jonathan. The basic problem is this: Nobody is listening to the engineers, and (increasingly) the customers. Customers are getting sick of this and starting to replace Sun kit with IBM kit, because IBM is prepared to deliver (and support!) what they want. Sun, it seems, just can't be bothered with its paying customers' needs.

I work for one of Sun's top-20 customers in terms of revenue. They're turning their back on Solaris and going to IBM for future projects. You'd think Sun would be worried - but it doesn't look that way. They're just as full of themselves as ever, and blissfully unaware that they're getting devoured by Linux on the low-end market and killed by IBM in the high-end arena.

As far as Axmark is concerned, he's just one in a long line of people whose companies have been bought up by Sun, worked out his obligatory time at the company - and then left, taking all his knowledge with him. Sun is pretty bad when it comes to buying out other companies - they usually pay over the odds, and end up with most of the talent leaving - leaving Sun with an empty, worthless shell. Not really good business.