The world’s largest business software company, Oracle’s recent deal for acquisition of Sun Microsystems is alleged to be deliberately delayed by Oracle. According to few legal experts, some legal weak points in the Sun deal are in favor or Oracle Corporation. Oracle is alleged of misusing those points to save more money out of the deal.
Sun Microsystems is famous for owning the popular Java platform and MySQL database software.
Sun Microsystems, which is already in bad shape, is subject to more pressure now. Owing to the stock implosion and other factors that are not in favor, Sun microsystems has announced to lay off up to 3,000 employees in the coming months.
Here is an excerpt of a comment posted by a person who claims to be an employee of Sun Microsystems :
Pray for us poor Sun Employees…
Mr. Billionaires, don’t you have a heart?, don’t you have a soul?, don’t you win enough money?
Why do we have to suffer sadness, fear, layoff, over-indebtedness, family break, suicide…?
Are we still pawns, numbers in 2009?
We were proud of Sun Microsystems, we were proud of our Creativity, we were proud of our Team Spirit, we were proud of our Passion.We were Human Beings….
This brings us back to the old discussion of job security in corporate companies. You may be working for the Sun Microsystems, but you are not an exception of being fired when it comes to business reasons.
Can’t anything be done to this attitude of the rich corporates? Can’t the government intervene and save the employees who work hard for the benefit of the company? Should employees always suffer for these corporate deals?
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