Sun Microsystems Mena will not be affected, in the interim, by the recently announced job cuts as part of changes designed to align the company’s cost model with the global economic climate.

“For now it is business as usual,” said Chris Cornelius, managing director for Sun Microsystems Mena.

'At a corporate level this will take months to implement so nothing immediate will happen; Sun Mena continues to grow and increase our revenue. Sun’s strategic priorities have not changed; in fact, we are amplifying our focus on internet infrastructure, high performance computing, enterprise virtualisation and consolidation alongside our on-going pursuit of developers across the world.'

'The organisational changes will enable Sun to more efficiently bring new innovations to market as well as better serve customers and partners. We have an opportunity to define the industry's de facto open-source application platform - in datacenters, desktops, and devices.”

While Sun Mena has reported more than 16 per cent growth over the last year, it is clear that the customers Sun serves in the region are looking to move towards businesses built atop open source - not simply operating systems, but application platforms, too, from databases and application servers to identity management, single sign on, and business integration, all the way down to the Java platform itself, on every device known.

“We have made significant people investments in the last few months due to our year on year growth and the potential we see in the region. We are not, however, immune to the world economy in the Mena region and will be prudent in our future local expansion plans,” added Cornelius.-TradeArabia News Service