IBM and Amazon have settled its patent dispute. Wow Fallout 3 will have real star power. This analyst says there's no way IBM will be laying off 150,000 staff.

But analyst Bob Djurdjevic, president of Annex Research, says that while Big Blue may be trim 1,000 jobs here and there was no way the company would lay off 150,000 employees. He told Network World that there is no business reason for IBM to do that. The company is doing very nicely thank-you. Besides 150,000 was around IBM's entire US operations