Re: Analysts squash rumors of 150,000 IBM layoffs

2007-05-11 Thread Gibney, Dave
A.EDU Subject: Re: Analysts squash rumors of 150,000 IBM layoffs On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 09:22 +0100, Phil Payne wrote: > On another subject - did you see that IBM and Amazon have settled? Wanna take a bet that > Amazon got a sweetheart deal to get the case off the table and clear the way for the

Re: Analysts squash rumors of 150,000 IBM layoffs

2007-05-10 Thread Shane
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 09:22 +0100, Phil Payne wrote: > On another subject - did you see that IBM and Amazon have settled? Wanna > take a bet that > Amazon got a sweetheart deal to get the case off the table and clear the way > for the PSI > issue? $1 damages? Anyone else detect a whiff of cyni

Analysts squash rumors of 150,000 IBM layoffs

2007-05-10 Thread Phil Payne
> Hmmm... This sounds a lot like Phil Payne's take on the situation ... Perhaps they read IBM-MAIN. You heard it here first, and free. Not for the first time, and probably not for the last, I recommend John Allen Paulos' excellent little book: "Innumeracy - Mathematical Illiteracy and its Cons

Analysts squash rumors of 150,000 IBM layoffs

2007-05-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/050707-ibm-layoffs.html 'One analyst called the rumor "hogwash," saying IBMs business is doing well and that the companys overall number of employees has gone up in the past five years. Another analyst called the report "ludicrous," saying if the amount