It seems as though some bad news in the pipeline for the Ericsson job front has been turned into a standby via the outsourcing of nearly 1000 jobs for the telecommunications giant. IBM will move in to cover the outsourcing of Ercissons applications department in a move that may suggest that hardware and software development streams should not be maintained under the same roof if profit is a goal… source: CNN.com – Jun. 27, 2003