Job-Cutting Quantum shows sensitive side.

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Quantum Corp. took great pains to explain itself last month, after announcing that a buyout of Boulder's Benchmark Storage Innovations was going to cost Colorado 64 high-tech jobs, It was refreshing.

California-based Quantum eliminated a bunch more Colorado jobs last year when it moved part of its Colorado Springs operations to Malaysia, after it had often been cited as a beneficial example of the state's concentration on high-tech industrial growth. Those cutbacks earned the company frequent mention as the press reported on Colorado's contracting high-tech economy and widespread technology layoffs. Read that: bad press for Quantum.

So John Cannon, Quantum's president of its. DLTtape group, which is...