Cringely doom in 2007: "But this week's "job action," as they refer to it inside IBM management, was as much as anything a rehearsal for what I understand are

Cringely doom in 2007: "But this week's "job action," as they refer to it inside IBM management, was as much as anything a rehearsal for what I understand are another 100,000+ layoffs to follow, each dribbled out until some reporter (that would be me) notices the growing trend, then dumped en masse when the jig is up, but no later than the end of this year." http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070504_002027.html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070504_0020... The path of HP, Cisco, Dell, IBM and all has been pretty clear for awhile now, and Cringely doesn't add any insight that isn't obvious. Scale up is drying up and there is no pot of gold in scale out. Your turn at being a commodity is coming, and that prediction is more accurate than anything Cringely has made.