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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Sun Microsystems made headlines last week with the announcement that it would &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-11-2008/jw-11-sun-layoffs.html&quot;&gt;cut up to 18% of its workforce&lt;/a&gt;. While much has been said about the layoffs and related departures (such as Rich Green&#039;s), there is another story here: Sun is in the midst of a massive, if possibly undirected, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-11-2008/jw-11-sun-banks-on-open-source.html&quot;&gt;redefinition&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;span class=&#039;read-more&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.javaworld.com/community/node/1875&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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