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image thumb34 Zembly falls in Darkness as Sun Microsystems pulls the plug

The bold vision of Sun Microsystems all of a sudden just lost it all and therefore the sun will set on it. I am talking about Zembly; the project it launched a year or two back and was set to provide an app development platform that would help bring forward innovative ideas. But I guess those were just boastful words and it failed the expectations big time and users have been notified that it will suspending the service on November 30th. Well, luckily I am not sad since I was never a part of it or got carried away by all the air Sun gave to it. This adds another to the Web-cemetery.

image thumb49 Sun Microsystems to have round two of Layoffs: And this time the number is 3,000

This comes after quite some time, the news of layoffs in numbers as Sun might show the exit to around 3,000 employees. This would take their total layoffs to 9,000, following the six thousand it did last year. This all happens while it is in acquisition talks of Oracle. The layoffs will take place across the globe and chances are there will be more layoffs once the acquisition actually completes.