Oracle To Fire Thousands Of Former Sun Employees Reckons Analyst

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Those numbers are significantly more than the 3000 job cuts reported back in October 2009. Larry Ellison has already given his assurance to the European Commission that MySQL will survive the acquisition. That said, halving the number of employees means that there will be products that will either be sold or discontinued altogether.

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