Re: Fwd: IBM and Texas – Outsourcing troubles part two

2010-09-10 Thread Larry Macioce
The problem IMHO is new management and accountants The new management has cut their teeth on the server world for example we had a deputy cio hire in, we were talking about the mainframe one day and I explained to him how we ran cics(explained it) a db, batch, users(developing cobol), etc and

Fwd: IBM and Texas – Outsourcing troubles part two

2010-09-03 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, Did you see this article ? Several threats and a long letter detailing what it calls “chronic failures” of agreed service levels, Texas has made another move in its efforts to fix a seven-year, $863 million outsourcing contract with IBM that’s gone bad. The Texas Department of Information