Sun sacks 6,000, but Schwartz won't say who

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By Paul Boutin Nov 14, 2008 10:54 AM

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Sun sacks 6,000, but Schwartz won’t say who

Chief executive ponytail-twirler Jonathan Schwartz is annoyingly vague in this San Jose Mercury News interview. Got more details on Sun's layoffs? Please send 'em in. Neither one of us has a job to protect anymore, so we might as well blog the facts. (Photo by AP/Paul Sakuma)

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