Sun Slashes Jobs, Sets Restructuring

The latest reorganization also includes a major overhaul of Sun's software business and an executive reshuffling. The company announced that Rich Green, Sun's executive vice president of software, has chosen to leave the firm.

Sun, which has thrown its weight behind open-source software in recent years, also revealed plans to break up its software organization. The new business groups will focus on application-platform software, systems platforms and cloud computing, which is increasingly touted as a key next-generation technology.

As part of the restructuring, Sun's chief marketing officer Anil Gadre will take over the company's application-platform software efforts. In this role, Gadre will also be responsible for products from Sun's $1 billion acquisition of open-source database specialist MySQL.

Sun, which recently announced a major open-storage initiative and clinched a search deal with Microsoft (MSFT Quote), is also aligning its marketing more closely with its sales and product organizations.