[xienze]

Cringely definitely tends to... exaggerate but I have to say, getting IBM to even ballpark the number of people they're cutting is quite a feat. Remember this is the company that doesn't break down its head count for "competitive reasons" and prefers to stagger cuts so they don't trigger WARN in various jurisdictions.

[jimbokun]

Not sure of the original source, but a meme I've been seeing around the Internets lately goes something like

"The best way to get an answer to a question on the Internet, is not to ask the question, but to give a wrong answer and wait for people to correct you."

I'm not sure whether this was is what Cringely was up to, but if it was, well played indeed.