Yesterday I woke up to a flurry of emails flooding my (work) inbox about the big (not so good) news at Sun about some major upcoming layoffs…like 5000-6000 people over the next year….(that’s approximately a 15-18% reduction in staff, quite a bit bigger than their 1000 person layoff in July)…first it was the internal/confidential announcement to employees (though nothing I’m saying here that isn’t pretty much all over the mainstream media now already anyway), followed by links to a video announcement from the CEO, and then a flurry more emails about their simultaneous restructuring and how your boss’s boss’s boss’s boss now reports to someone different, and everyone in between the six layers of management sending out “Today’s announcements and you” emails.
In the immediate sense my boss reassures our team again that our team that Netbeans is a key component of Sun’s strategy going forward. And within Netbeans, the web-tier is the particular part where I work…the internet ain’t going away anytime soon…tools for authoring websites and web-applications? Definitely on par with the wave of where the internet’s going…maybe that’s why we’re now under the “cloud computing” group. Not to say everywhere under the web-tier is a good place to be, but where I am is supposed to be a good place…