Sun to lay off 24 in Bellevue

Sun Microsystems is laying off 24 employees in Bellevue on May 30, according to a company notification to the state of Washington. Sun confirmed this week that it's handing out 1,500 layoff notices, but declined to specify where the affected workers are located. The job cuts are part of a broad restructuring that Sun announced in November.

Sun in November said the total number of layoffs could total up to 6,000. It was not immediately clear how many employees are left in Sun's Bellevue office or whether the office faces additional layoffs.

Sun is reportedly in talks to be acquired by IT services giant IBM, though no deal has been announced. Sun also recently rolled out a cloud computing services platform to compete with the likes of Amazon.com, Microsoft and others.

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