Google has a link to a cached copy of the Austin-American Statesman article re: IBM winning a State of Texas IT outsourcing contract, but oddly enough the newspaper's own Web site doesn't have the article.
The IT resources tally is quite interesting: 31 data centers, 16 mainframes, and "more than 7,000 servers at 1,300 locations...." That's for 27 state agencies which, evidently, couldn't figure out how to pool IT resources. (Hint: mainframes are quite useful.) Does a state government, even one as big as Texas, actually need 31 data centers and 7,000 servers scattered around 1,300 locations? If I were a taxpayer in that state I'd be at least curious. What are all those data centers and servers doing? Does anybody on IBM-MAIN work for an organization with 31 (or more) data centers, to provide some context? It seems most odd to me, even for state government. Larry Olson, the CTO, says in the article that $1.2 billion in state IT spending over 7 years will decline to "under $1 billion" with this contract. Mike Gross, VP of the Texas State Employees Union, wants the legislature to delay the deal and questions Olson's figures. Personal opinion(s) only. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
