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Massive - literally

Friday, January 23. 2009

I´ve got this link from a colleague this morning: Sun Microsystems to lay off 1300 Indians, other software companies panning massive job reduction – no new hiring in 2009-10. And massive has to be understood as "really fscking massive":

International software and hardware companies operating in India will lay off more than 1,500,000 jobs in 2009.

By the way: The line headline above isn´t correct ... 1300 is the global number of employees that were laid off. I was so shell-shocked about this 1,500,000 number, that i´m directly posted a short artcle about it without crosschecking.

I was already researching for it while getting the anonymous comment , as this number for Sun looked much to high for Sun and i already knew the global number and this was the same number. Sorry for that. Obviously this throws an different light to the 1,500,000 number ... i hope it´s as wrong as the numbers for Sun India as 1,500,000 million looks more like a global number, everything else would be just a disaster.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, The IT Business at 09:21 | Comment (1) | Trackback (1)

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Correction to "Massive - literally"
I´ve corrected the article "Massive - literally". The 1300 laid-off people were the global count, not the number of India. I was so shell shocked, that i didn´t crosschecked the number with the already known number of global number. Thus I have to apologi

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This is not correct. The press has got it wrong. I had hoped you would have checked with internal sources before publicly blogging about it. The press (india daily) has applied the global number to india site. Please issue the correction.

#1 Anonymous on 2009-01-23 11:39 (Reply)

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