Headcount Reduction
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Sun chops heads: Can it get any respect?
Insight commentary With its open source efforts slow to pay off and the broader economy crumbling, CEO Jonathan Schwartz responds to a charge that Sun has become "toxic".
Tags: Open source, Servers, Financial, Leadership, Headcount Reduction, Jonathan Schwartz, Cloud Computing, Forbes, Sun Microsystems Inc., microprocessor
Five ways IT departments can win in a crisis
News CIOs need to revise their IT strategies in the downturn to adapt to long-term sustainability, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Tags: IT Management, IT Services, Telecommunications, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, strategic sourcing, CIO, organizational structure, business intelligence, software, asset
5 cost-effective ways to lower enterprise risk
News Experts from KPMG and Ernst & Young share tips on keeping organizational risk under control, without denting a hole in the enterprise pocket.
Tags: Enterprise risk management, IT Governance, Business, Risk Management, Supplier, Training, Risk, ERP, compliance, analytics
Making a case for open source
Techguide Bringing any new system into an established organization, especially when it is a concept like open source, is a matter of selling the idea.
Gartner: IT budgets squeezed further
News Almost half of CIOs surveyed by the research firm said they spent less on IT in the first quarter than they had initially planned.
Tags: IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, Chief Information Officer, IT Budget, IT-spending, Survey, Gartner Inc., industry, IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control
Micro Focus buys Borland in US$75M deal
News British application-management company buys U.S. rival Borland and, in a separate deal, spends US$80 million on application testing and software quality products from Compuware.
Tags: Acquisitions, Business applications, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., software, lifecycle management, enterprise application, acquisition, Business applications, Acquisitions
Oracle's second quarter to be a mixed bag
News Analysts expect the company, which reports its Q2 results this week, to announce a mixed bag including healthy maintenance subscriptions, potential earnings miss and some belt tightening on deck.
Tags: Financial statements, Analyst reports, ORCL, Sales, Reback, Brendan Barnicle, business intelligence, U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc., Oracle Corp., license revenue
More contract IT jobs expected in S'pore
News To overcome headcount restrictions, many roles traditionally offered as permanent jobs will be converted into contract positions this year, new survey finds.
Tags: Human resources, Career, Outsourcing, Survey, Singapore, business analysis, Human Resources, recession, job, network
Job cuts at AsiaOne
News The poor economic situation has prompted SPH AsiaOne Ltd to lay off 23 employees, or 20 percent of its workforce.
Lucent to trim staff in Asia 
News Some of Lucent Technologies Inc's 10,900 employees in Asia Pacific will be affected by the networking company's latest round of job cuts.
Intel expands networking choices
News New communications chips come just in time, since companies are out of cash.
Job cuts at SingTel
News update Headcount reduction has begun at the Republic's No 1 telecommunications provider Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel).
Oracle to cut 5,000 jobs in PeopleSoft merger
News Firm drops the ax in effort to squeeze costs out of its US$10.3 billion PeopleSoft buyout. Combined firm will employ 50,000.
Tags: Mergers
Pink slips on the way for Siebel employees?
News The Oracle and Siebel deal is closed and some analysts say employees from both companies could find themselves displaced.
Tags: Business applications, Acquisitions, Layoffs
Lucent sees more job cuts
News Lucent Technologies said Tuesday it will lay off 15,000 to 20,000 more workers and take a US$7 billion to US$9 billion charge as part of a continuing restructuring program the company hopes will help it turn a profit sometime in fiscal 2002.
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